TED - Tag Every Desktop - is a commandline tool, inspired by the classic BGInfo, designed for MSPs to be able to display images and text programmatically on the desktop, positioned above the wallpaper but below the icons.
The selection of tokens is nearly perfect- one additional one that we'd love to see would be OEM Serial number.
A solid example of this would be displaying Dell's Service Tags in the text section, allowing users to give us a more persistent identifier to find their machine.
I think this could be implemented with WMI, though I haven't looked at how the others are retrieved yet.
Might make a PR for it over the weekend if I get bored :)
Seems like devices on Windows 11 consistently (but randomly, if that makes sense) lose the TED "drawing" without the background being changed or Windows Explorer being restarted. Have seen this behavior on the 22H2 and 23H2 builds.
I think this tool is great! I'd be interested in additional inline formatting options - ie being able to bold or underline inside the line itself. Not sure if HTML or Markdown can be used for that. I may explore and try implementing this myself.