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» Bginfo
[Retrievable informations]Introduction
How many times have you walked up to a system in your office and needed to click through several diagnostic windows to remind yourself of important aspects of its configuration, such as its name, IP address, or operating system version If you manage multiple computers you probably need BGInfo. It automatically displays relevant information about a Windows computer on the desktop's background, such as the computer name, IP address, service pack version, and more. You can edit any field as well as the font and background colors, and can place it in your startup folder so that it runs every boot, or even configure it to display as the background for the logon screen.
Because BGInfo simply writes a new desktop bitmap and exits you don't have to worry about it consuming system resources or interfering with other applications.
- General fields:
- Boot Time
- CPU
- Default Gateway
- DHCP Server
- DNS Server
- Free Space
- Host Name
- IE Version
- IP Address
- Logon Domain
- Logon Server
- MAC Address
- Machine Domain
- Memory
- Network Card
- Network Speed
- Network Type
- OS Version
- Service Pack
- Snapshot Time
- Subnet Mask
- System Type
- User Name
- Volumes
- Custom fields:
- An environment variable
- A registry value
- The version information contained in a DLL or executable file
- The time stamp (last modified date) of a file
- The contents of a text file
- The output of a VB Script
- The result of a Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) query
(WMI can get the data of kinds more than Windows Performance Monitor)
This software is not suitable for real-time information display such as a CPU used. However, I think very smart approach as a tool for change to display the information which is not frequent.
Have fun!
