Sweet Little Appz: BgInfo from SysInternals

at around evening time on Tuesday, the 15th of March 2005 by Anarchy

I’m always in the market for a nifty piece of freeware… and am usually browsing about trying to find the next little gem. (All the miscellaneous App installs is probably why I end up rebuilding my laptop every 2 or 3 months.)

Anyway… as a Systems Administrator with way too many machines… I’m always trying to find new toyz to make my life easier. In keeping in that theme… I’ve recently re-discovered a simple, yet brilliant, little app that makes perusing the contents of your KVM switch 100 times easier. I hadn’t used this App in a long time… and had clean forgotten about it. Tonight… I stumbled upon it, and am so glad I did.

BgInfo is configurable to pull some relavent environmental variables from your machine, and turn them into a desktop background. You can set it up once… or you can automate it to refresh on startup.

Tomorrow… I’m putting this little gem on every server I’ve got.