Display your system information on the desktop

BGInfo is a nice, free Windows program, being part of the category Software utilities with subcategory Analysis & Optimization (more specifically System Analysis).

More about BGInfo

BGInfo is a reasonably light program that doesn’t need as much space than most programs in the category Software utilities. It’s very heavily used in some countries such as Georgia, Qatar, and Norway.

It’s available for users with the operating system Windows 95 and former versions, and you can get it in English. The current version of the program is 4.14 and it has been updated on 11/8/2008.

Since the software has been added to our selection of programs and apps in 2003, it has obtained 19,486 installations, and last week it had 3 installations.

BgInfo now displays correct version information for Windows Server 2008.

Changes

• BgInfo now displays correct version information for Windows Server 2008.

How many times have you walked up to a system in your office and needed to click through several diagnostic windows to remind yourself of important aspects of its configuration, such as its name, IP address, or operating system version? If you manage multiple computers you probably need BGInfo.

It automatically displays relevant information about a Windows computer on the desktop’s background, such as the computer name, IP address, service pack version, and more. You can edit any field as well as the font and background colors, and can place it in your startup folder so that it runs every boot, or even configure it to display as the background for the logon screen. Because BGInfo simply writes a new desktop bitmap and exits you don’t have to worry about it consuming system resources or interfering with other applications.