Hi,
is there any way of accessing the registry in qb and if not how could i make a program that ran from config.sys that randomly choses a picture from a set list and sets it as the desktop background
Running a program from config.sys? You can not run it from config.sys but could run it from autoexec.bat. Normally the desktop-background is situated in one of the ini-files in your windows directory. I don't remember from the head what is.
But yeah that would be possible from autoexec.bat.
OK, set your backgound (when you are in windows) to the IE wallpaper, find the name of it (like, save it from IE) then search for it. Find its location, then just pic a random background and copy it to that location.