Thanks for the reply...


Basically I need to be able to control colurs, wellpapers, screen savers
etc.  I know I can directly access this through the registry but this will
not be instant (will be at next login).

MSDN has the IActiveDesktop interface with methods like SetWallpaper,
SetPattern etc, but I cannot access this through VB (unless anyone knows of
a way to do this....?)



-----Original Message-----
From: Trayce Jordan [mailto:trayce@j...]
Sent: 27 June 2000 13:15
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] RE: access the active desktop


what are you wanting to do.  from my experience with installations, most
things regarding desktops, user setttings etc. can be found/modified through
the registry - depending of course on whether it's in HKEY_CURRENT_USER or
not you may need to use the windows APIs rather than GetSetting and
SaveSetting.


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Everest [mailto:mark.everest@t...]
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 3:33 PM
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] access the active desktop


Hello all,

Does anyone know how to programatically control the active desktopm from
VB.

MSDN describes how to use the IActiveDesktop interface in VC++ but not from
VB - any ideas?

Mark