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Hi,

I am wondering how i add infomation in the bottom right of the desktop. e.g. PC name, ip, service pack installed etc. I have seen it quite a bit, but have never worked anywhere that have set it up.

i tried googling it, but as i don't know what it is discribed as it is hard, lol.

 

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Check out

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897557.aspx

 

Cheers guys, i will take a look in a while.

 

It is great, but is it possible to set it to automatically stay there even if the user changes their background?

 

This is covered in one of my MS Press books. There's a tweak that you can make to an .ini file; think it's just a case of adding in an extra parameter. Can't remember which one though. I'll take a look tonight and get back to you tomorrow (so long as I remember of course!).

Alex

 

Got this on my work machine Wish i could put it on the servers but my 'manager' didnt seem interested.

 

Right, here goes:

Locate the boot.ini file (I'm sure you can find it. Do a search in My Computer if not) and open it with Notepad. Add in the following switch:

\SOS

Here's an example:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect /sos

This will display the machine's version number, physical memory, the number of CPU's it possesses and more!

Hope that helps.

Alex