What custom wallpapers are you using?

[Halfmad]

If any?

 

Just curious, I'm looking at making a simple custom one for my school. Probably one for staff, one for pupils and another one for the admin group.

 

Suggestions?

[Geoff]

Just plain blue here.

[_Bat_]

Yeah, we just use blue with school badge and details of account in top right hand corner using bginfo.

[Domino]

Yeah, apart from having different colours for staff and pupils thats all we have

[Geoff]

You might want to use BGInfo though.

[Halfmad]

I looked at BGinfo, not entirely sure it's useful though. All of the information is easily obtainable and I rarely need to know mac addresses etc.

 

It'd come in hand now and then but I don't want to add fluff

[Geoff]

I've found it's useful if you run it as a startup script and set it to modify the login desktop. That way you can simply glance at a machine and know what hardware/network config it has.

 

It also removes the need to label PCs with, often missing, bits of sticky labels. As the desktops are labelled with the PC name.

[daveyboy]

We use custom desktops - Staff, Students, support and Admins - all designed by our students. Great competition every so often!

 

We also use a custom login screen - changed every week or so, with messages, deadlines, comic strips - basically anything that we can get in a bitmap. (BTW christmas is great - seeing staff members photos photoshoppped within an inch of being well........ Its Bl**dy hysterical)

 

Anyways we are going to run a new comic strip for next year - competition opens Monday...........

 

not quite BOFH but who knows?

 

could be BSFH........or BTFH !

[MkII]

BGInfo - useful for machine identification if you're fixing remotely - we publish the PC name as Geoff suggests.

[Halfmad]

Ah perhaps that'd be handy although with NSS I can see the labels remotely before I log in anyway. I shall have a think!

[MkII]

Yeah - it's when your phoned about a PC - you can say "read the PC name from the top right corner of the screen" - helps a lot

[dave.81]

The rolling green hills of home here on all pcs.

[webman]

We used the default RM blue background, but have a custom bitmap on the login screen which changes periodically.

[TechMonkey]

We have blue for Students, Green for staff (a recurring scheme across the school) and I have Desktop Earth (http://codefromthe70s.org/desktopearth_dl.asp)

[plexer]

I use a tiles background of student for students and teacher for teachers just to distinguish if a pupil is logged on as a teacher.

 

Ben

[sqdge]

Boring blue for all the students here...and the teachers. Although custom bmps can be used on the teacher's laptops.

 

I also use boring blue (bar one admin PC which i deliberately set to boring grey for a bit of variety). My servers feed into one monitor so I have cleverly added the words "admin" and curriculum" to their desktop backgrounds so that I don't get confused.

[sidewinder]

regarding bginfo - how do people get it to work as a logon/startup script?

 

it does work but it ignores the settings I specified and saved in the default.bgi and just displays all information

[Geoff]

At machine startup:

bginfo startup.bgi /timer:0

At user logon:

bginfo logon.bgi /timer:0

[Pottsey]

This is the old version of the wallpaper I use http://www.beechhill.notts.sch.uk/files/Wallpaper.zip

 

It’s a simple blue page with a bunch of useful links down the right hand side. Some of the links point to folders on our server or C drive.

[Guest Guest]

Never seen that before. Already wacked in the scripts Cheers

[sidewinder]

At machine startup:

bginfo startup.bgi /timer:0

At user logon:

bginfo logon.bgi /timer:0

 

Ahhh

Thanks for that

 

I completely missed the fact you can specify a specific file

[limbo]

Our staff wallpaper is their personal handbook (which also contains the staff handbook and departmental handbook) so all the documents they need are right there in an ordered fasion on their desktop.

 

Students are just plain blue (Windows classic)