Update Windows Desktop

[Milby7]

Hi!

I'm trying to get windows to pickup registry updates without rebooting. I've added a change to a service & for some weird reason Windows/the service doesn't pickup the changes made unless I show a messagebox afterwards!?!?

If anyone has any ideas, or knows of any articles, that would be really helpfull.

Cheers!!!

 

[Cagliostro]

see in registry the key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General
put in the variable Wallpaper the path to the picture file.

Ion Filipski

 

[B00gyeMan]

Or you could use IActiveDesktop interface which can offer you much more options:

AddDesktopItem
AddDesktopItemWithUI
AddUrl
ApplyChanges
GenerateDesktopItemHtml
GetDesktopItem
GetDesktopItemByID
GetDesktopItemBySource
GetDesktopItemCount
GetDesktopItemOptions
GetPattern
GetWallpaper
GetWallpaperOptions
ModifyDesktopItem
RemoveDesktopItem
SetDesktopItemOptions
SetPattern
SetWallpaper
SetWallpaperOptions