Bginfo is a great utility that lets you display useful system information right. Can i install extra drivers via the command prompt. When it runs, bginfo updates your windows desktop image and adds 1 or more lines of text. Once i get it working the way i like, i then remove it and use it with bginfo64. Bginfo on windows server 2012 russ do it yourself home. By continuing to use this site andor clicking the accept button you are providing consent quest software and its affiliates do not sell the personal data you provide to us either when you register on our websites or when you do business with us. For the past couple of years, bginfo has been one of those, and it remains so. And last week it received a minor update, meaning its now fully compatible with windows 10. It has been tested and confirmed as working with bginfo 4. The installer also sets bginfo to launch on login so one can always enjoy bginfo goodness.
Today, i was googling how to deploy bginfo using sccm. The important thing here is to specify an account with. Missing network drivers during lti bootin deployment. Get answers from your peers along with millions of it pros who visit spiceworks. Command line installation for base drivers and intel. Using bginfo to display system information on the desktop. And finally we launch bginfo using the following command line. Windows installer service is installed by default in windows 2000 and windows server 2003. If youre admin or it professional or enthusiast you probably know already this free software which is not new, but. Then click on enable and then enter the path of the customized bginfo. Over the years i have come to the conclusion the bginfo is best run from the sysvol share using a logon script.
The information is generated in realtime, which means that the user is kept uptodate on current information regarding their system. Bginfo is a program that is part of the sysinternals suite from microsoft. Open the container and double click on the policy setting enable bginfo. Due to various resource conflicts, unstable drivers or dynamic link library dll files, and. Use bginfo to build a database of system information of. The following process details how to create a silent install package for bginfo. Of course, you probably want to schedule the capture process to run on a schedule. Branding your mdt deployment experience can be very important. The simplest thing to do is create a shortcut to bginfo and place it into your startup folder, and modify that shortcut to include the path to the configuration that youve created and saved using the editor. With that in mind, have a look at the commandline switches to display. Changes to the configuration are automatically saved.
Youll also need to add a couple of commandline switches to make it happen. How to use vbscripts in bginfo anything about it by alex verboon. The following powershell script will generate a bgi file which will contain the path that the cmd. However, many users got difficulty and problem in uninstalling it from the computer. Generate a list of installed drivers from the command line. Installing bluescreen to install the bluescreen screensaver, just copy the. You can use commandline options to automate the execution of bginfo on. Coreinfo is a new commandline utility that shows you the mapping between logical processors and the physical processor, numa node, and socket on which they reside, as well as the caches assigned to each logical processor. I created a reg file to install a run entry to refresh the bginfo data at. Because bginfo simply writes a new desktop bitmap and exits, you dont. Hold windows and r keys to open the run command, paste the value data in the box and click ok. The cool thing about the latest mdt is that bginfo is installed automatically within the tools folder. Where the driver is not installed, the windows update service sends the complete device.
I created a folder in the program files x86 directory and copied the bginfo. After that, the new setting will appear in the administrative templates bginfo policy. Whether or not you need to run this program on startup must be decided by you. Devcon is a part of windows driver kit and is a command line utility which can be used to quickly disable, enable, install, remove, scan and list all the hardware devices.
The program generates a report of system information and displays this on the users desktop. Bginfo for x and for windows, also called bginfo4x, is a clone of the popular program bginfo for microsoft windows created by sysinternals bginfo4x is designed for pretty print useful information cpu model, hostname, ip address, os version, office version, and much more. Those informations shows on the desktopserver youre logged in. Next run bginfo, accept the license, and set it the way you want. You have to either restart the display server log out and back in or restart the system entirely recommended. Script psbginfo for simpler deployment of bginfo in your. Using microsofts bginfo utility to customize your deployment process is simple, but it takes time depending on how much customization you want. Note that it must be compiled as a driver, not program, use kernel mode api functions and be structured in a special way as all kernel drivers are e. People usually asks how to setup bginfo on startup for all users and ill show you how. Everybody suggested on community to use gpo for this task. Its also useful if you are a command line junkie and have cygwin installed you can just pipe the command through grep and quickly see exactly what you are looking for. However, if you are in a server environment or if you want to control device drivers using the command line, then devcon is a good alternative for the regular device manager. Runs bginfo and applies the default template from local copies.
Adding windows 10 version, bios mode and secure boot state. Exe information this is a valid program, but it is up to you whether or not you want it to run on startup. It is a little different than in the past but i still need my bginfo info screen displayed so this is what i figured out. For testing purposes on the command line with cscript, i put wscript. Bginfo can show different information about the system youre logged in. No need to download the bginfo utility from the microsoft site. It can be used as a silent installation deployment or included into your windows 7 deployment method. How to manage windows device drivers from the command. Which command i need to use i know i have many other method for installing a. The logon scripts calls a simple batch file which is located on sysvol share along with bginfo and its. Theres a command line utility that comes bundled with windows vista or xp that gives you similar output.
The only problem with it is that it seems to be abandoned. I used the scheduler winq and start typing scheduler method to run bginfo. You can choose where this text appears, and what it says. The default start menu location is accessories\bginfo. Making bginfo work in windows 2012 windows 2016 notes. Additionally, one can choose to run bginfo after install. Sysinternals utilities windows sysinternals microsoft docs. Creative sound blaster audiopci 128d wdm all i want to know is if i get hold of the sys and inf files to install. If the info is available via accessible via the registry, env variable, script, or just plain text, bginfo will add it right on top of whatever image you use on your. Bginfo logon batch file solutions experts exchange. This is the way i make bginfo work in windows 2012 and even windows 7 too.
I didnt like that method because i like to have more info about deployment. This command creates a scheduled task to run the capture process at 8 am every morning and assumes you copied the required files to the root of your c drive. If you have just downloaded the drivers you should be able to run the following, which will add them to. This section describes how to install intel proset using proset. An attacker could use bginfo in place of psexec, hosting its configuration file on an. If you want bginfo to edit or use a configuration stored in a file instead of the default configuration which is stored in the registry specify the name of the file on the command line. For your graphics card, you will get a choice of the proprietary driver from the manufacturer and a free alternative.