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Comment on Remotely Set a User’s Desktop Wallpaper by Bob

Bob — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:29:34 +0000

psexec would work for remotely executing chwp but not for actually changing the wallpaper. You need to be executing as the console user for the API call to work.

Also, with psexec, you’d need to install the service on the remote machine. I chose WMI because it didn’t require any additional software.

Comment on Remotely Set a User’s Desktop Wallpaper by WL

WL — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:05:56 +0000

Couldn’t you have just run psexec from sysinternals?

Comment on Dipping Duck by Shadeclan

Shadeclan — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:31:04 +0000

Oops! Make sure you change the name of the screensaver in the registry file to whatever screensaver you prefer – chances are, you don’t have Endless Screensaver installed on your PC.

Comment on Dipping Duck by Shadeclan

Shadeclan — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:27:59 +0000

I had the same problem except that, being slightly more paranoid than my Admins, I wanted the screensaver set to come on every 7 instead of every 10 minutes. Our GP is refreshed at every boot, so I wrote a little batch job that uploads a registry file whenever I reboot. Here are the registry settings I use:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
“SCRNSAVE.EXE”=”C:\\WINDOWS\\ENDLES~1.SCR”
“ScreenSaveActive”=”1″
“ScreenSaveTimeOut”=”420″
“ScreenSaverIsSecure”=”1″

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control Panel\Desktop]
“ScreenSaveActive”=”1″
“ScreenSaverIsSecure”=”1″
“ScreenSaveTimeOut”=”420″

And the batch code (for those who don’t dabble much in MS Batch):

@echo off
setlocal

@echo Changing Directory to regfile location.
cd /d “[whatever directory path you have your registry settings file]”

@echo Restoring Screen Saver settings to 7 min auto-on.
start regedit /s “[Whatever you call your registry file].reg”

endlocal
exit /b 0
exit

Enjoy!

Comment on Block Windows Shut Down by Bob

Bob — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:31:46 +0000

Normally that would work fine, but my work computer is part of my company’s Active Directory domain. The admins have a group policy that forces Windows Update to reboot after install.

Comment on Block Windows Shut Down by Johan

Johan — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:53:53 +0000

Hello there,

strange stuff youre into. You say “I’m sort of amazed this actually worked.”, but I say “It’s Windows, anything strange can lurk down there in the dark”.

Anyway: I just go to Control Panel –> Windows Update to “Choose how Windows can install updates” and forbid it to reboot the computer without asking me first. I assume there’s a reason you didn’t go for that solution.

Comment on FUSE Extension for PHP by david

david — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:54:19 +0000

have you got an idea when you implement the write feature ?

Comment on Vista: Defective By Design by Samuel Haddad

Samuel Haddad — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:23:17 +0000

WOW, that is a truly Epic windows hack. Good to know!

Comment on Installing Vista Beta 2 in VMware by Dan Buhler

Dan Buhler — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:44:24 +0000

Thanks Manic!

Problem solved. You’re a genius.

Comment on Installing Vista Beta 2 in VMware by Manic

Manic — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:16:01 +0000

One way of installing this is by creating an ISO image and loading it using Daemon Tools. Then point the drive in VMWare to the Daemon tools drive and load from that. Good luck!