DeskWall - Change wallpaper from DOS and Windows (c) 1993 by Andreas Furrer ================================================= This is version 1.10 of DeskWall. DeskWall lets you change the wallpaper of your Windows desktop from DOS and from Windows. With DeskWall you can have your wallpaper bitmaps in ANY directory. Deskwall lets you cange your wallpaper randomly, cyclic and to a specific bitmap from DOS and from Windows. In Windows you can also change the wallpaper interactively. Usage ===== The usage of DeskWall from DOS or Windows is nearly the same: Syntax: WINDOWS: DESKWALL [BitmapDirectory] [/Random | /Cycle | BitmapFileName] DOS:'); DESKWALL [BitmapDirectory] /Random | /Cycle | BitmapFileName If your Bitmaps are not in the directory from where you start DeskWall, you have to specify the path to your bitmaps with the parameter BitmapDirectory. If you start DeakWall from DOS you have to enter one of the parameters /Random, /Cycle or BitmapFileName. In Windows you can omit this parameter. You will then see a dialog that lets you set the wallpaper interactively. In this dialog there are some options: - update WIN.INI If this button is checked, your WIN.INI will be updated. Otherwise the wallpaper is set, but the WIN.INI is not updated, so the next time you restart windows, you will get the previous wallpaper. - test mode If this button is checked, deskwall will be in a test mode. If you set a wallpaper in the test mode, DeskWall will minimize all other windows and hide itself. You can now see the wallpaper. If you press the left mousekey, DeskWall becomes visible and you can test other bitmaps. - Bitmaplayout center/tile With this two buttons you can control if your new bitmap will be centered or tiled. - Options This button will open the options dialog of DeskWall. In this dialog you can setup the default setting for DeskWall. You can setup if - Updating WIN.INI is checked when starting DeskWall - DeskWall starts in test mode - and what layout the wallpaper will have. Here you can choose tile, cascade or the layout which is currently setup. In the options dialog there are also buttons to see the syntax of DeskWall and the about dialog. Only if you start DeskWall from DOS: You have to start DeskWall from the windows directory, because DeskWall have to change your WIN.INI. Before DeskWall make any changes to your WIN.INI it will rename your original WIN.INI to WIN.BAK. Because DeskWall will only change the setting of the wallpaper in your WIN.INI the change of the wallpaper will only take effect for the next Windows session. If you want to change your wallpaper everytime when you start windows it is the best to have a file WINSTART.BAT in your windows directory. Windows will execute WINSTART.BAT everytime when you start Windows. A sample WINSTART.BAT which will change your wallpaper randomly could look like this: (assuming that your windows directory is C:\WINDOWS, DeskWall is in C:\WINDOWS\TOOLS and your bitmaps are in C:\WINDOWS\BITMAP) @ECHO OFF c: cd \windows c:\windows\tools\deskwall c:\windows\bitmap /random If you have setup your Windows for german language, you will get a german version of deskwall in Windows. The DOS version is always in english. Freeware-Note ============= You can use and distribute DeskWall free, as long as the following files are not changed and you distribute all files together - deskwall.exe - deskwall.txt I am programming DeskWall because I have fun and not to make any profit. That's why DeskWall is free and you don't have to pay more or less high registration charges. I think it is a bad habit, that more and more program authors want to have money even for the smallest programs. Long live the Freeware! If you have problems, comments, suggestions or you detect one error, please E-Mail to s_furrer@ira.uka.de (c) 1993 by Andreas Furrer Version history ================= 1.10: - Added the options dialog to set the default settings for DeskWall. - Moved the syntax dialog from the about box to the options dialog. 1.00: First version of DeskWall.