Guide: Customized Windows 7 Login Screen

[Toxcity]

Hey guys! I thought I would write up a small guide of a very simple by effective tweak.

Most of you will know about this but for those who don't I'll show you how. Basically, we are going to change the Windows 7 login screen (and also the image the comes up behind the options on the CTRL+ALT+DEL Screen).

Step 1: Run regedit and navigate to the following key:

HKKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Authentication/LogonUI/Background/

Once you're there create a 32bit DWORD named OEMBackground and make sure the value is 1.

Now for the next key, navigate too:

HKKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Policies/Microsoft/Windows/System/

And then create another 32bit DWORD called UseOEMBackground and set the value to 1.

Step 2: Once you've done step 1 navigate to the following location using Windows Explorer.

C:/Windows/system32/oobe/info/backgrounds/

If the file background is not present then create it.

Now simply place any image of your choice into this folder and make sure you name it backgoundDefault.

Note: The image size must not be bigger than 256kb otherwise it will not work.

Let me know how you guys get on! Hope you enjoy the guide.

 

[Brooksie]

Hi Tox! Welcome back!

Nice guide.

 

[Toxcity]

Cheers man!

Hope it helped.

 

[yassarikhan786]

Will give this a go, thanks Toxcity

 

[Toxcity]

You're welcome mate! Let me know the results.

 

[You_What?]

Thanks mate, will try this when I rebuild and re-install my OS!

 

[Toxcity]

My pleasure man!

 

[equk]

cool guide

I have a small script I wrote to do this from a while ago.

I've attached the script and a OC3D 1080p background image taken from:

View attachment 3005

replace the background.jpg file in this folder with your own

the filesize must not exceed 256kb and be a 24-bit color jpg

you must run this command as a administrator due to permissions

You can download the zip, unzip and just run as admin for the OC3D background.

Or if you have your own background that fits within the dependencies you can replace background.jpg in the folder and run the script.

 

[Zone]

http://tweaks.com/software/tweakslogon/ , found this, enjoy guys.