desktop / user name

[billb]

if i want a users users name to appear on their desktop can this be done? i know u can with active desktop but would rather do it with a jpg if poss?

Thanks

(xp/2003)

[JamieBeeston]

For a Small Scale roll out, you could simply set their wallpaper to be a JPG with their name watermarked.

For a corporate level rollout, it would require some windows scripting.

J

[billb]

JamieBeeston said:

For a Small Scale roll out, you could simply set their wallpaper to be a JPG with their name watermarked. For a corporate level rollout, it would require some windows scripting. J

would the scripting work with a jpg?

[aldi]

This says it has a command like option -

www.thebeatlesforever.com/processtext/abctext.html

so could you use that in the login script, like:

echo %username% >username.txt
abcconvert username.txt c:windowsusername.jpg
regedt /s set_desktop_wallaper.reg

Only problem is if the script runs after the wallaper appears, the wallaper will allways show the username of the last user, not the current one. Unless they've all got home shares, then maybe you could set the wallpaper to permenantly be \serverhomes\%username%wallpaper.jpg ? Then you'd only need to create the jpg once per user and just check at login that the file exists -

if exist \serverhomes\%username%wallpaper.jpg goto :next
echo %username% >username.txt
abcconvert username.txt c:windowsusername.jpg
regedt /s set_desktop_wallaper.reg
:next
etc.
etc.


HTH

[agent006]

Look for an app called BGinfo. we use it to display server names on wallpaper, so it should be able to do username.

[billb]

agent006 said:

Look for an app called BGinfo. we use it to display server names on wallpaper, so it should be able to do username.

have u had any probs with this as this is one we found and were thinking of using if theres no other way of doing it?

thanks

[agent006]

Not sure. I just know that's what we use, i've not been involved in actually doing it. It's done at build time so might not be as dynamic as you need.