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I am looking for freeware that will allow me to display a text file on my windows desktop.

Hopefully some software that is lightweight, and will work on WinXP to Win8.

I plan to use this freeware in accordance with some batch file/scheduled tasks, to update the text file used, with pertinent information, then display that updated info on my desktop.

So it's important it's freeware and lightweight.

Thank You.

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This program can display anything you like on the background.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb897557.aspx

It is meant to display system info but you can remove all that and replace with any text you like.

JohnnyVegas
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Putting the text up as a desktop background is... weird. If you really want to do that, you will need to set the desktop background to an appropriate image.

You can use the command-line tools in ImageMagick to render text to an image. This is an example how to set a background image programmatically, if you need to (setting it manually once and then running the UpdatePerUserSystemParameters command will probably be sufficient for you).

You may still want to consider just launching Notepad or a brwoser with the file, or setting the notes as the home page in the browser.

Jan Schejbal
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