Re: Current username in Windows 7

[Rob Morley]

On 20 Jan 2013 13:27:29 GMT
Huge <Hu...@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> On 2013-01-20, Huge <Hu...@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> > Is there some way to have Windows 7 display the current username on
> > the desktop?
> >
> > (I suppose I could put an appropriately named icon on each of the
> > desktops on our machine, but I was wondering if there's a better
> > way.)
> >

I wonder if this will work with $USERNAME
http://en.kioskea.net/faq/1860-displaying-your-name-on-the-taskbar-near-the-clock
(No Windows machine to try it on.)

[Marcus Houlden]

On 20 Jan 2013 13:27:03 GMT, Huge <Hu...@nowhere.much.invalid>
wrote the following to uk.comp.misc:

> Is there some way to have Windows 7 display the current username on the
> desktop?
>
> (I suppose I could put an appropriately named icon on each of the desktops
> on our machine, but I was wondering if there's a better way.)

The "User's Files" icon actually displays the username as part of its title,
but if you want more info there's MS Sysinternal's BgInfo:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897557. I think we use a
customised version for servers at work.

mh.
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[Marcus Houlden]

On 20 Jan 2013 15:33:00 GMT, Huge <Hu...@nowhere.much.invalid>

wrote the following to uk.comp.misc:

> Server Error in '/' Application.
> The resource cannot be found.
> Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of
> its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is
> temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure
> that it is spelled correctly.
>
>
> Requested URL: /en-us/sysinternals/bb897557.
>
> Tee-hee

Looks like my full stop on the end broke it. Try
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897557 instead

[Daniel James]

In article <am29l7...@mid.individual.net>, Huge wrote:
> Is there some way to have Windows 7 display the current username
> on the desktop?

I just set a different wallpaper for each desktop -- in my case there
are usually only two users (me and an admin account) so I set the normal
user's desktop to a soothing pale blue colour and the admin's to a
frightening bright red.

That's a trick I picked up from an early SuSE Linux distro, designed to
warn people not to run routinely as root -- it works in other OSes too.

You could create a bitmap containing the user's name and tile it all
over the desktop ...

Cheers,
Daniel.