Telling which Wifi my windows computer is on by its wallpaper.

June 14, 2017 10:02 AM

Is there a way to have the background image my computer displays reflect which SSID it is wirelessly connected to? I would like to determine this information by a glance at the screen.
posted by Obscure Reference to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

Use BGInfo - you can customize what the overlay is on your wallpaper.
posted by msbutah at 10:08 AM on June 14, 2017 [5 favorites]

Best answer: Here's the specific VBS to feed SSID into BGInfo.
posted by msbutah at 10:13 AM on June 14, 2017 [2 favorites]

Response by poster: BGInfo certainly does what I asked, only it does so statically. If the connection changes, I'd have to run it again.
posted by Obscure Reference at 4:16 PM on June 14, 2017

Response by poster: I suppose I could somehow have it run once a minute.
posted by Obscure Reference at 4:17 PM on June 14, 2017

Best answer: You can use windows' scheduled tasks to run a script when you connect to a network.
posted by mmascolino at 7:16 PM on June 14, 2017 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Rainmeter can do this. It's pretty elaborate though.
posted by neckro23 at 9:09 PM on June 14, 2017 [1 favorite]