Workaround for BGInfo Tiled wallpaper on high resolution screens

Hi All,

There is a bug in BGinfo that some of you may have noticed which causes the applied wallpaper to be tiled even though bginfo is set to “stretch” mode. This occurs on windows 8/10 where you have the following setting set to more than 100% :

 

This problem would happen even if i had a wallpaper with dimensions the same as the screen resolution. This makes no difference because of the above slider setting:

Example of what it looks like when tiled (not my image)

No matter what i tried to do i could not get BGInfo to behave. I noted that this issue is a problem on machines with a higher horizontal resolution than “1680”. I put together the below powershell script to check this resolution, and if greater than 1680 , bypass bginfo and set a normal (corporate) wallpaper without BGinfo applied, otherwise BGinfo will run as normal.

This file runs as a user logon startup script.

Note: The only issue with this script is the user will have to log off/on to see the changes for the first time. I tried to use an old unsupported method (from WindowsXP) of ” rundll32.exe user32.dll, UpdatePerUserSystemParameters ” but this doesnt work, if anyone has any suggestions on what replaces this command let me know in comments.

Here it is:

	Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Force
	Function Set-WallPaper
	{
	if ((Test-Path "C:\Windows\Media\Wallpaper.jpg") -eq $false)
	{
	Copy-Item -Path ("\\server\Themes\BrandingOfficial\Desktop Wallpaper 2560x1440px 1 – v1.0.jpg") -Destination C:\windows\media\Wallpaper.jpg -Force
	Write-Host "Wallpaper Copied"
	}
	{}
	Set-ItemProperty -path 'HKCU:\Control Panel\Desktop\' -name Wallpaper -value "C:\Windows\Media\Wallpaper.jpg"
	Set-ItemProperty -path 'HKCU:\Control Panel\Desktop\' -name TileWallpaper -value "0"
	Set-ItemProperty -path 'HKCU:\Control Panel\Desktop\' -name WallpaperStyle -value "2"
	}
	$bginfo = Set-Location \\server\dfs\apps\bginfo\
	$res = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_VideoController | Select-Object CurrentHorizontalResolution
	if ($res.CurrentHorizontalResolution -le '1680')
	{
	Write-Host "bginfo will apply"
	$args = @('/TIMER:00', '/SILENT', '/NOLICPROMPT')
	& "$bginfo.\bginfo.exe" "$bginfo.\Bginfo.bgi" $args
	}
	else
	{
	Write-Host "Processed Local wallpaper"
	Set-WallPaper
	}

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