Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Customize the Windows 7 log-on screen

Windows 7 makes it easy changing the Windows log-on screen.

    1. Go to start, and click on Run, type Regedit & press enter there.
    2. Navigate to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\ LogonUI\Background
    3. Double-click the OEMBackground DWORD key
    4. Set value of the key to 1.


    5. Select a background image for Logon Screen with size less than 256KB in size (Use of Image Resize software like VSO Resizer can help)
    6. Copy that image into the C:\Windows\system32\oobe\info\backgrounds folder
    7. Rename the image to backgroundDefault.jpg
    8. Reboot, and now your logon Image would have changed.

Here is new logon screen: