BGinfo on Server 2012

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   I have downloaded BGinfo. I can configure it and when I hit preview it does preciew but when I select apply it closes the display. When I run as administrator the following "c:\bginfo\bginfo.exe C:\bginfo\config.bgi /silent /accepteula /timer:0" all I get is the background screen color to change.  I copied to a windows 2008 R2 server and tried it and it worked fine. Does BGinfo work on windows 2012 or am I doing something wrong?

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achapman6 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 16 January 2013 Location: Mesa, AZ Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote achapman6 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: BGinfo on Server 2012 Posted: 16 January 2013 at 2:33pm
	I have downloaded BGinfo. I can configure it and when I hit preview it does preciew but when I select apply it closes the display. When I run as administrator the following "c:\bginfo\bginfo.exe C:\bginfo\config.bgi /silent /accepteula /timer:0" all I get is the background screen color to change. I copied to a windows 2008 R2 server and tried it and it worked fine. Does BGinfo work on windows 2012 or am I doing something wrong?
	Allan

WindowsStar Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 30 June 2010 Status: Offline Points: 503	Post Options Post Reply Quote WindowsStar Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 January 2013 at 6:26am
	Sorry to say but this software is getting extremely old. We have been begging for an update for years. Looks like that is never going to happen. -WS

MagicAndre1981 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 08 January 2007 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 1456	Post Options Post Reply Quote MagicAndre1981 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 January 2013 at 6:37am
	code your own tool. Here is an example: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CCS-LABS-Windows-Forms-3ceb349f

MagicAndre1981 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 08 January 2007 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 1456	Post Options Post Reply Quote MagicAndre1981 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 January 2013 at 7:39pm
	here is the second example: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CCS-LABS-Windows-Forms-c39e1a9b

kfeina Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 07 November 2012 Status: Offline Points: 13	Post Options Post Reply Quote kfeina Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 January 2013 at 7:36am
	hello, can you try bginfo4x ? You can find it at bginfo4x.sourceforge.net Regards.

SJB99 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 21 January 2013 Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote SJB99 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21 January 2013 at 4:05am
	whilst bginfo4 is a good program, it needs Cygwin on the server. the aims to deploy less software to servers, not more. and its pretty hard to justify adding the cygwin layer just to add info to the desktop. so I am not suprised that people would rather just drop bginfo than add more crud to their server builds. On X, yeah sure its good. On Windows, it's not worth it.