desktop-customizationscriptwindowswindows xp
On X Windows I had a cool 'silent-alarm" reminder script that would change my root window (background) color to solid red, just for a few seconds a few moments before changing it back. Is there a way to do this for Windows XP?
I'm thinking some kind of scheduled task that uses cscript to set registry keys (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop) . However my attempts don't seem to have any effect. What do I have to signal to read those registry entries and re-draw the desktop?
That appears to be SysInternals' BGInfo.
It's a stand-alone executable that you place in your StartUp directory. You can create a Windows scheduled task to refresh it at an interval you choose.
BGInfo basically writes a new desktop bitmap image every time it is executed.
You can pick and choose the data presented, its fonts, colors, etc.
It appears this is by design... Link (a bit confused - looks like it does it on 30 seconds, but not 10 :S )
Anyway, what you can do is manually select the next one when you first come in to work in the morning, then every day, the timer should be reset to do it at that time... if you set it to rotate at one day intervals.
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This does change the background via command line. Just save this as a bat file. Use bmp or you will have to refresh. Also sets the wallpaper to be stretched. If you take out the wallpaperstyle line it will automatically be centered.