Bginfo VS BB4Win

BGinfo is one very simple approach to your basic premise. Source: about 1 year ago

Check out BGInfo. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/bginfo. Source: about 1 year ago

BGinfo runs on boot to overlay useful information on the wallpaper. Source: about 1 year ago

Microsoft has BGinfo @ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/bginfo that is free and can be pushed to machines to display relevant data like machine name and IP right on the desktop and its highly visible to end users. Source: over 1 year ago

But, I recommend taking a look at bginfo. A lot of places just use this to constantly display the system's info on the Desktop. It seems like a campy solution, but it's a popular campy solution that no one questions. Source: over 1 year ago

I used this Windows port of Blackbox many years ago. Perhaps time try again. https://bb4win.sourceforge.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

Cool, that still exists. Some years ago I was into all that desktop customization and tried this, LiteStep [0] and Blackbox/bb4win [1] but ended up with BlackBox. Nowadays, all the customization I need is a tool to fix the taskbar position that someone who probably uses a portrait mode monitor moved to the wrong spot [2] and a launcher [3] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiteStep [1]:... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

You can go farther but it might become buggy http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/ I have not tested it for along time but it was fun to play with. Source: over 1 year ago