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Just my 50 sents (2 comments) on this.....

Gerhard Grosse wrote in message <3748535F.E90FE04E@ph.tum.de>...

>begin
>  cReg := TRegistry.Create;
>  with cReg do try
>    RootKey := HKEY_CURRENT_USER;
>    OpenKey('Control Panel\desktop',False);
>    sOldWallPaper := ReadString('Wallpaper','');
>    WriteString('Wallpaper','c:\windows\mywallpaper.bmp');
>    CloseKey;
>  finally
>    Free;
>  end;
>end;


Note that win95 and 98 stores these information in the WIN.INI file under
DESKTOP. (above code for NT)
You have to check whether the unformation is in the Registry or in the INI
file.

I make a check whether it is present in the registry, and if not (KeyExists
or whatever) then I read from the INI file.


-----Original Message-----
From: Dirk Claessens <will.bounce@back.com>
>if not SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER,
>                            0,
>                            PChar('MyWallPaper.bmp'),
>                            SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE) then
>ShowMessage( 'Oops : ' + SysErrorMessage(GetLastError));

A problem with SystemParametersInfo in _some_ versions of Win95 (and also NT
????) is that SystemParametersInfo in this case ALWAYS returns true !!!!!
I don't know the result for 98.

Therefore is it better to read the Registry/inifile to check whether the
change was successfull !

Sonnich