Sunday, 19 February 2012

Change Logon Screen Background of Windows7

Everyone would like to change the logon screen backgroundof Windows7. This will give your Windows7 a customized look. You can set your own picture as background svreen. You will have to follow the steps below to change background screen -->
1 : The image that you should set should be a .jpg file and its size should be less than 245KB.
2 : The image can have any resolution. I personally have used 1400 x 900. This is actually my screen resolution. You can use any photo editors to change resolutions. But you will have to save the image with file name backgroundDefault.jpg.
3 : Next you will have to copy the image to
C:\Windows\system32\oobe\info\backgrounds
If this path does not exist then you will have to create it.
4 : Go to Run and type regedit. This will open Registry Editor. Navigate to
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\
LogonUI\Background


If background does not exist then right-click LogonUI, select New and then Key and name it Background. Now locate OEMBackground in the right pane. If it does not exist, then right-click Background and select New and then DWORD and name it OEMBackground.
5 : Double click on OEMBackground and set the Value Data to 1.
6 : Log off to see the new logon screen. In order to go back to old background screen set Value Data to 0.

3 comments:

  1. There is nothing called HKLM in Regustry Editor of Windows7. Please help me out

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    1. I think you have opened registry editor for the first time. HKLM actually stands for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Hope this will help.

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  2. I have read this post previously. I also could not understand it & requested for a screenshot to the blog author. Thanks for your screenshot. I have successfully changed my log on screen background

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