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by jmoody76

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I have been assigned the task of putting a small window in the top right hand corner of the desktop that will display information about our help desk numbers and times our users can reach us. I have already thought about using the image as a wallpaper but my boss wants our users to be able to use there own wallpaper and have our support image sit on top of the wallpaper in the corner. Most of the computers are 98 but I have a few NT computers as well.

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by justmeangie

Use active desktop and design a small web page type format and put on desktop use front page express or front page and then it can be updated and such that is what we use here for Notes and Info updates :)you just go to properties by right clicking on desktop and go to WEB once you have it made add the address of where you stored the web page on your network and make it active if you need me to answer any questions feel free to email me angie_wright@the-connection.com

by mphoffar

I'm not sure if you can even do this with the active desktop. The momement someone right clicks on an image and chooses set as desktop, everything is blown away.

Personally, I'd probobly just write a small vb applet to display the phone number,email address, etc on a popup window with an OK button and then put a shortcut on desktop and call it, help desk information.

Of coarse you could just get some clear labels and paste it right on there screen

Mark

by bdgray

Well...this may not be exactly what you are looking for but here it goes. Create a little HTM web page that has the contact information, including email links and links to support pages on your intranet. When you are done change the file extensionfrom HTM to HTA. This changes it to an executable. I know it sounds strange but it works. It is a function of windows not the web page you created. Place a link to this .HTA file in the user's registry to startup automatically (HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENT VERSION\RUN). Everytime they log in they will get this informative message. Unfortunately, the will be able to close it. But, just like locking down desktops, when they realize it is going to come back everytime they loginthey will eventually just leave it up all the time. It is a war of attrition!

Regards,

Bradley D. Gray

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