How do I retrieve The wallpaper of an user

[shadowlesshand]

Hi,
I am writing a code to backup files and folders. I need to back up the users desktop wallpaper. How do I do this. There could be several users.
Thanks

 

[JFRobishow]

Hi,

I'm not to sure how to extract data from the registry so I'll leave it up to other to explain the function but the display settings are stored in the registry under :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
You should be able to get the file name from there and then backup the file.

If there's more than 1 user, I'm not sure but they should all be stored in the registy under :

HKEY_USERS\{user}\Control Panel\Desktop.

I'm not all that good with VB, but since your post didn't have any answer yet I thought I would try

 

[johnwm]

The easy way to save/restore registry keys is via the appropriate API calls. There is a fully worked VB sample towards the bottom of this page:

http://www.mentalis.org/apilist/RegOpenKeyEx.shtml

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