Well, now that you mention it, NO
Hope this turns out OK...wrote it in Word, then copied/paste here and lost formatting.
Your Vista Welcome screen is contained in a file called imageres.dll. Edit this file to modify your Welcome screen without need of installing software to do it for you.
1. Take ownership of imageres.dll
a. In Windows Explorer, navigate to "c:\windows\system32\imageres.dll"
b. Right click the file > choose Properties
c. On the Security tab, click Advanced > Owner > Edit
d. Select Administrator as the new owner and OK your way back out.
e. Right click the file again and choose Properties again.
f. On the Security tab, click Edit, then click the Administrator entry in the list
g. Click Allow and Full Control
h. OK your way back out again.
2. Edit imageres.dll
a. Make two copies of imageres.dll; name one imagesres.dllOLD and name the other imageres.dllNEW
i. The OLD file will act as a backup and the NEW file is the one you?ll edit and save over the original
b. Use a resource editor to open and edit imageres.dllNEW
i. (I'm using XN Resource Editor in the following instructions)
c. Open XN Resource Editor and click View > Options > Choose which parser to use > XN Resource Editor internal resource parser > OK
d. File > Open > c:\windows\system32\imageres.dllNEW
e. From the tree on the left, expand the Image folder and open any one of the numbered folders
f. You'll see that each of these folders contains different resolutions of the Vista Welcome Screen
g. Find the one that matches the desktop resolution you're using.
h. Using an image editor of your choice, create a new welcome screen matching the pixel dimensions of your desktop (e.g., 1280px x 800px)
i. Once your new welcome screen is prepared, select all and copy
j. Switch back to XN Resource Editor and paste your new image over the existing image.
k. Save and close imageres.dllNEW
3. Replace the original imageres.dll with the new one
a. Reboot in Safe Mode w/Command Prompt
b. At the cmd prompt, type copy imageres.dllNEW imageres.dll
c. Press Enter
d. Press y to confirm
e. Reboot again and you should be presented with your new Welcome Screen
If things don?t work out, re-edit your imageres.dll file and try again (start at step 2 above) or, replace imageres.dllOLD file over the imageres.dll (start at step 3 above, but type copy imageres.dllOLD imageres.dll instead).
