Change Login Screen background in Windows 7
If you are sick of vanilla login screen background, there is a way to change =) You have to tweak in registry a bit though, Microsoft just made it easy for OEM partner only
First of all, you have to prepare your new background. Crop your image to 1:1 to your screen resolution. The catch is you should save your image not to be larger than 256kB. You might think it turns to crap one, but believe me that’s good enough =)
After getting an image you want, rename it to “backgroundDefault.jpg”. Then copy to the folder
%windir%\system32\oobe\info\backgrounds
in case it doesn’t exist, create your own.
Secondly, enable the background in Registry, by getting into “regedit”
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background
Create new key DWORD 32-bit, value 1 (1 as enable, 0 as disable) Also, if any of these doesn’t exist, create your own =)
That is it!, you may lock the computer and appreciate your personal login screen. Make your PC personal again!! lol
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I’m not a big fan of customized desktop since I regularly clean up my OS every now and then. This is much easier way to spice up the feeling a bit =) Yeah, it’s free.
Also, it has a lot of interesting wallpapers which, of course, are nice. It’s like looking through Flickr with rotating desktop wallpaper, a feature which Microsoft eventually get after Apple has for many years
Check it out @ Personalized Gallery
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Bypass Windows XP/Vista/Win7 login screen
If you prefer the fast way (less secure), Vista does provide an easy GUI for configure this.
Here is the what you have to call. I just wonder why they don’t provide this in normal User Account page. Then you just to select the account you want to access automatically, then uncheck this:-
It will ask you a password of the selected account. Then next time, you restart the computer, you will never have to put a password anymore
Update before Win 7 launch (Oct 19, 2009): Although this command works with Vista and XP, it doesn’t seem to work with Windows 7. The alternative is using ‘netplwiz‘ instead of ‘control userpasswords2′ and yes, netplwiz works on Vista and XP too. Quite good, huh?
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