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Bginfo

This fully-configurable program automatically generates desktop backgrounds that include important information about the system.

Desktop Info

This little application displays system information on your desktop in a similar way to some other...
  • Bginfo Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-07-31
  • Desktop Info Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-01-24

Bginfo

Categories
  • Monitoring Tools
  • Command Line Tools
  • Tool
  • Log Management
Website learn.microsoft.com  

Desktop Info

Categories
  • Monitoring Tools
  • Command Line Tools
  • Tool
  • Log Management
Website glenn.delahoy.com  

Bginfo videos

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How to Use SysInternals BGinfo To Put Critical Information On Your Desktop Background

More videos:

  • Review - BGInfo informações úteis na área de trabalho dos usuários | http://professorramos.com

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Bginfo and Desktop Info)

Bginfo

Desktop Info

Monitoring Tools
54 54%
Monitoring Tools
46% 46
Command Line Tools
55 55%
Command Line Tools
45% 45
Tool
54 54%
Tool
46% 46
Log Management
44 44%
Log Management
56% 56

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Bginfo seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 10 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Bginfo mentions (10)

  • Sticky notes app that will actually stick notes
    BGinfo is one very simple approach to your basic premise. Source: 10 months ago
  • Is there anyway to always show the PC name on a desktop?
    Check out BGInfo. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/bginfo. Source: 12 months ago
  • Show us your BI set up! Here's mine
    BGinfo runs on boot to overlay useful information on the wallpaper. Source: about 1 year ago
  • New IT dude needs help/guidance from some more experienced wizards here.
    Microsoft has BGinfo @ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/bginfo that is free and can be pushed to machines to display relevant data like machine name and IP right on the desktop and its highly visible to end users. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Create a toolbar with powershell?
    But, I recommend taking a look at bginfo. A lot of places just use this to constantly display the system's info on the Desktop. It seems like a campy solution, but it's a popular campy solution that no one questions. Source: about 1 year ago
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Desktop Info mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Desktop Info yet. Tracking of Desktop Info recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Bginfo and Desktop Info, you can also consider the following products

Conky - Latest commit 262a292 on Dec 7, 2017 brndnmtthws Add missing build dep. Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop.

Rainmeter - Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform.

GKrellM - GKrellM is a single process stack of system monitors which supports applying themes to match its...

Übersicht - Keep an eye on what is happening on your machine and in the World.

Nerdtool - NerdTool is a GeekTool-like application that displays information directly on your desktop.

BitBar - Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar

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