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hauerwas
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Topic: Can we get a new BGInfo for Windows 7?Posted: 18 September 2009 at 7:08pm |
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Folks,
I'm currently using BGInfo under Windows XP to display info on the logged-out screen on Windows XP. As mentioned in some other threads, Windows 7 will support login window customization:
but unfortunately the customized screen has to be JPG, not BMP. It was also mentioned in other BGInfo threads that Win2K8 R2 is being seen "as" Windows 7, not as Win2K8:
So: can we get a new version of BGInfo that would satisfy both? How do we go about requesting it?
Adam Hauerwas
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n8felton
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Posted: 14 October 2009 at 3:36am |
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sconstantine
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Posted: 02 November 2009 at 4:29pm |
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I second the inquiry!
Thanks~ |
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baer
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Posted: 13 November 2009 at 1:11pm |
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me too
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andublin
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Posted: 17 November 2009 at 9:38am |
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Adding a voice to the request . . . |
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magbe08
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Posted: 17 November 2009 at 12:00pm |
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Easy solution would be to add JPG-saving capabilities to BGinfo. Then you'd just set BGinfo to save output to 'backgroundDefault.jpg'.
Of course, it would be nice (although probably difficult) to add a jpeg-saving feature that would optimize output so that we'd having a minimum of compression artifacts around the text output. |
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Posted: 20 November 2009 at 8:40am |
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yeah ......and plz a native ps1 script file as Replace identifier! ;)
thx!
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hauerwas
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Posted: 19 March 2010 at 4:07pm |
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Folks, I have been working on a scripted solution to the problem of Win7 backgrounds and BGINFO. I've experimented using a free command-line graphics converter to change the bitmap to a JPEG after BGINFO does its work. If you want to use my approach, the code is available for download from http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13326617/pcinfo.zip or the main scripts are in this posting. The main script, pcinfo.cmd, gets stored in a directory C:\PC\scripts\pcinfo\. (The "PC" is because I work at Providence College, and it writes an "info" screen for the login background; it's in a subdirectory off of PC because I also use the directory tree for other purposes.) Dependent binaries are stored in a pcinfo\bin subdirectory; this includes BGINFO.EXE itself as well as the LEADTools Command Line Image File Converter (called LFC.EXE, available from http://www.leadtools.com/utilities/):
The pcinfo.cmd script needs to be run once with Administrative privileges in order to create an output subdirectory, set permissions on directories and load registry keys; afterwords, it can be run by non-administrators. The code detects whether it is running under Win7/2008 or not, which is why there are two .bgi files in the main directory; you can run this under any Windows NT-based platform and it will choose the appropriate file (though sorry, no backgrounds for Vista; this is because Vista encodes the image into a DLL, and I'm hesitant to script modifications to it [refer to http://forum.sysinternals.com/topic14184.html for more info]). The two .bgi files are configured to write output to C:\PC\pcinfo\output\backgroundDefault.bmp (adopting the naming convention for Win7 backgrounds). Under Win7, the script will then use LFC to convert the bitmap to a JPEG. If the file size is larger than 256K it will reconvert the file with the lowest quality to (hopefully) get the file size below 256K. (Note that if the file is still too large, you likely need to reduce the content of your .bgi files.) Both .bgi files reference a custom field _pcinfo; this custom field points to a VBScript file C:\PC\pcinfo\pcinfo.vbs. The VBscript is used to do string parsing and alignment, and also pair MAC to NIC descriptions in a "table" (instead of scrolling MAC addresses down). To adopt this code, you would need to do the following: 1) Download the zip archive and decompress it to C:\PC\scripts\pcinfo; If you decide to change the paths, the help in the script (pcinfo.cmd /?) will tell you what needs to be changed; basically you need to modify the .bgi files to specify a) the output directory for the bitmap to be a new .\output location, and b) change the _pcinfo custom field to point to the correct location for the VBScript. I hope you find this useful! Adam Hauerwas
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somarr
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Posted: 04 April 2010 at 5:55am |
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Adam,
Excellent documentation and solution! I had investigated this but as it was not a priority I did not have time to create a solution. Yours works great in my initial testing.
I would like to add your solution avoids the hacks that I did not want to attempt in a coporate environment.
Thanks for your efforts!
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newalloy
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Posted: 22 June 2010 at 11:11pm |
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Adam... THANK YOU for putting this together.
And yes... I would LOVE for BGInfo to support a jpg option, or a feature that exports logon backgrounds (writes to oobe\info\backgrounds in jpg format) |
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