Windows Registry Help

Chad Anderson canderson at ebizsolutionsonline.com
Thu Dec 12 19:20:25 EST 2002


Greetings!

	Well, I'll get right to it. Here's my problem. I have 658923456389 wallpapers saved...or soemwhere close...and I want a random one each time I login. I've created a program that when run goes in and sets the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop\\Wallpaper to a random wallpaper chosen from my wallpaper directory. Now, it sets the key and when I bring up desktop properties it shows that as being the current desktop background, however, the old one is still there. What I need to do is find out how I apply it. I got regmon and watch the registry and what it does at the exact time I hit Apply, but I can't tell which thing is for applying the wallpaper! There are almost 100 registry movements in that exact moment. Now, my question is, do any of you know which one I need to query to get it all to go? I've been testing out various ones but none seem to work.


			Thanks in advance for your help,
				Chad Anderson




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