How to Virtualize Your Wallpaper (and Make it Work)

Have you ever found yourself wrapped around an axle because you wanted to virtualize a favorite wallpaper but couldn't figure out how? Well, you're not alone (okay, maybe you are -- but just in case), FrankB went where few virtualization aficionados have gone before. And he left a trail of breadcrumbs so the brave among you can follow.

The stuff you'll need to bring:

• Wallpaper in a BMP format
• cw.exe
• Remove.exe
• SVS Agent installed
• Easy Excluder

The steps you'll need to take:

1. Open SVS Admin Console
2. Choose File > Create New layer...
3. Pick: Empty Layer
4. Click Next >
5. Name the Layer anything you want.
6. Click Next >
7. Click Finish
8. Now right click the Layer an choose: Edit Advanced Layer Properties...
9. In the (Read-Only) part open System
10. Right click [PROGRAMFILES]
11. Choose: New > Folder
12. Name that folder: SvS4All
13. Now copy and paste you wallpaper called: SvS4all-WallPaper.bmp
14. Download cw.exe and Remove.exe here
15. Copy cw.exe and Remove.exe also into that directory.
16. Close the Layer properties.
17. Choose: Start > Run
18. Type: regedit and click OK
19. Now browse to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Altiris\FSL\<Number of your (Read-Only) part of your layer>
20. Right click the number (in my case 1)
21. Choose: New > Multi-String Value
22. Name that string: OnPostActivate
23. Right click that key and choose: Modify
24. Enter the following value: w,"%PROGRAMFILES%\SvS4All\cw.exe"
25. The 'w,' is to make sure that the Layer waits until cw.exe is finished.
26. Right click the number again
27. Choose: New > Multi-String Value
28. Name that string: OnPreDeactivate
29. Right click that key and choose: Modify
30. Enter the following value: w,"%PROGRAMFILES%\SvS4All\Remove.exe"
31. Close regedit.
32. Activate and Deactivate your layer to test, if there is something wrong it will be in the naming of the directory or the wallpaper.
33. To clean up, first Deactivate your Layer.
34. Go to the fslrdr folder (by default C:\fslrdr)
35. Open the folder with the (Writeable) number (in my case 2).
36. Remove the directory with the funny long number (this is called SID).
37. Open regedit again.
38. Goto: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\fslrdr\ The key with the same number as your Writable folder.
39. Open the HU key and remove the folders that are in there, they are also with that number (SID)
40. Close regedit.
41. Open EasyExcluder and choose: Layer Exclusions.
42. Pick your layer from the dropdown and choose (un)Check All
43. Click Save and close Easy Excluder.
44. Export your Layer, and you're finished.

Have Fun, FrankB