Logon Screen Changer

Philtor

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Whilst working on a customers machine recently they asked me if I could get rid of the horrible white Toshiba logon screen/splash screen on their Windows 7 Laptop. Now there's any number of registry hacks and 3rd party programs to do this but I came across this one which is excellent. It enables you to change the logon screen by right clicking on an image and selecting 'set as logon background'. You can also restore the default Windows 7 logon screen which is what I used it for. Anyway might interest some of you :)

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Do you know what resolution is supports, I'm hoping for Eyefinity 5760 x 1200?

Seems there is a 256KB limit, doesn't say anything about resolutions though
 
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Don't need a Program to do it!..

Customise the log-on screen

Changing the Windows log-on screen used to involve some complicated and potentially dangerous hacks, but not any more - Windows 7 makes it easy.

First, browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background in REGEDIT, double-click the DWORD key called OEMBackground (not there? Create it) and set its value to 1.

Now find a background image you'd like to use. Make sure it's less than 256KB in size, and matches the aspect ratio of your screen as it'll be stretched to fit.

Next, copy that image into the %windir%\system32\oobe\info\backgrounds folder (create the info\backgrounds folders if they don't exist). Rename the image to backgroundDefault.jpg, reboot, and you should now have a custom log-on image.

(Alternatively, use a free tweaking tool to handle everything for you. Logon Changer displays a preview so you can see how the log-on screen will look without rebooting, while the Logon Screen Rotator accepts multiple images and will display a different one every time you log on.)
 
Hi Simian,

OK find me something that will let me do a 5760 x 1200 login screen ;)

I think the file has to be < 256K but not sure about the res.

HEADRAT
 
HEADRAT said:
Hi Simian,

OK find me something that will let me do a 5760 x 1200 login screen ;)

I think the file has to be < 256K but not sure about the res.

HEADRAT
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the picture im using is 749k in size , so maybe the program i listed here converts it to a smaller file and the res on the pic is 1920x1080
i got my pic off a wallpaper site

if you have any pic`s that are the res you want? just try it and see
 
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ShakenNstirred said:
the picture im using is 749k in size , so maybe the program i listed here converts it to a smaller file and the res on the pic is 1920x1080
i got my pic off a wallpaper site

if you have any pic`s that are the res you want? just try it and see
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Yes it just resizes and does what Simian said to do. (If you look in the system32\oobe\info\backgrounds folder you will see the wallpaper you selected)
 
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