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Does anyone know how to refresh the windows desktop background? What I am trying to do is overlay some information onto a picture that is the desktop background and then refresh it. Then the info will be displayed on my desktop background. While I am at it, also do you know how to get the systems MAC address and IP address Programaticly?

Thanks a bunch, Im sure the rest of you will want to use this too? Right??? :thumbup:

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Another way to get your IP addresses (although not the MAC addresses) is to do this:

http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=6050

As for the MAC addresses, you can use the command Michael supplied to call the System Exec VI and parse the output. There are also probably some Windows API functions to do this. I'm fairly sure Rolf Kalbermatter (rolfk) posted some either here or to the NI fourms, so you can search there for his posts.

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QUOTE(dbyers3 @ Jun 8 2007, 10:23 AM)

Thanks Guys,

All worked great. One last thing,,, How about getting the Computer name????

Perhaps there's an easier way... but running 'ping localhost' gives the local computer name:

"Pinging <computername> [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:"

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QUOTE(dbyers3 @ Jun 7 2007, 09:03 PM)

See here for the VI to do (part of) this...

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Look at this registry key (just read it out):

or, if you don't like registry stuff, use this VI.

http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=6054

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