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FIGURE 10-8 BgInfo configuration to write to a SQL Server database table.
To write the data to a Rich Text File (.RTF) document, run BgInfo with /rtf:path on the
command line, along with a BgInfo configuration file (.bgi). Note that this feature incorporates
the formatting of the text, but not of the background. Therefore, you should change
the text color from the default white. You will probably also want to include /timer:0 on the
command line to bypass the 10-second timer.
Finally, to display the BgInfo data in a popup window instead of as wallpaper, add /popup to
the BgInfo command line. Add /taskbar to the command line to display a BgInfo icon in the
taskbar notification area, which you can click to display the BgInfo popup window.
Updating Other Desktops
On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, BgInfo can change the desktop wallpaper that
appears prior to user logon. Click the Desktops button to display the Desktops dialog box,
shown in Figure 10-9. You can individually select whether to update the wallpaper for the
current user desktop, the logon desktop for console users, and the logon desktop for terminal
services (remote desktop) users. You can also choose to set the wallpaper for any of those
desktops to None. Note that changing the logon desktops requires administrative privileges
and that the feature does not work on Windows Vista and newer. You can opt to have BgInfo
display an error message if permissions problems prevent it from updating a logon desktop.
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