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Are you looking to customize Windows logon screens, wallpapers, and other UI parts? If you use Greg's tweak to change your logon screen, how about sending it along to me so I can create a gallery to show it and everyone else's off?
This is handy for people who want to modify things for "fun". But I agree with Jeff. For personal use there is not much to be gained.
I used to change wallpaper and sound schemes etc in Win95 Win98 Win2K and XP - but since Vista I have not bothered. Perhaps this is because the designers have got better at creating something attractive and not too intrusive. Or perhaps I'm less bothered by recent ones.
The Windows Startup sound in 98 and Win2K was SO depressing! One of the first things I would do was to change this to the Win95 standard startup sound (created by Brian Eno).
The procedure you outline certainly beats hacking into DLL files like in XP.
I used to change wallpaper and sound schemes etc in Win95 Win98 Win2K and XP - but since Vista I have not bothered. Perhaps this is because the designers have got better at creating something attractive and not too intrusive. Or perhaps I'm less bothered by recent ones.
The Windows Startup sound in 98 and Win2K was SO depressing! One of the first things I would do was to change this to the Win95 standard startup sound (created by Brian Eno).
The procedure you outline certainly beats hacking into DLL files like in XP.
This is good to know for curious minds who are not worried about going into the registry. But for the rest, there's LogonStudio from Stardock.com which does this in a more intuitive and simple way. The program is free for personal use, and has a nice interface. The program does all the tweaking automatically.
This tweak did not work for me. I checked and re-checked everything and no go. So I will have to try this LogonStudio. Thanks for the tip!!
I carry my laptop to others' offices. Whenever I walk away from it, I use Winkey+L to lock it, but never let any screen saver come on. My log-on desktop's wallpaper is my name and address in my company fonts and colors. If the laptop walks away, at least those who've given it legs will know whom they've stolen it from.
-- Timothy J. McGowan, freelance court reporter
-- Timothy J. McGowan, freelance court reporter
It's a nifty tweak, but for my personal computer I don't see the point. I see the logon screen for maybe 3 seconds each time I log onto the computer. I can see it being useful for OEM's or resellers to advertise their business or people that just have to tweak everything and make their OS "their own."
Would be nice if Microsoft made it as easy to set the logon screen background (almost) as easily as the desktop background.
Would be nice if Microsoft made it as easy to set the logon screen background (almost) as easily as the desktop background.
Because my eyes are sensitive to glare, I use fairly dark, solid-color backgrounds. The Win7 logon and shutdown backgrounds are way too bright for me, so I gave this tip a try.
Works like a charm.
Here's an extra benefit. As the default background, I use the same color as I use for the desktop. The result is a seamless transition from logon, to desktop, to shutdown. The result makes the appearance of Win 7 more elegant than any prior version.
Thanks, Greg.
Works like a charm.
Here's an extra benefit. As the default background, I use the same color as I use for the desktop. The result is a seamless transition from logon, to desktop, to shutdown. The result makes the appearance of Win 7 more elegant than any prior version.
Thanks, Greg.
Sound nice, I might give it a try. But if you want to revert back, how do you do that? I need to know that before I would give this a try.
You can just reverse the process.
In fact, just changing your image name to be something other than backgroudDefault will revert back to the Windows default.
In fact, just changing your image name to be something other than backgroudDefault will revert back to the Windows default.
Just undo the FIRST of the Registry changesd listed in this article -- you change the OEMBackground value from 1 back to 0 which causes Windows to not look for any OEM Background picture and just use the windows default. There is no need to undo or delete anything else.
Yes, people who are comfortable in the registry AND compulsive about keeping the registry cleaned up and deleting unnecessary files might want to undo everything else done in this article, but there is no actual need to "fix" anything. The single registry value OEMBackground controls whether Windows uses its default logon screen or looks for a custom screen.
Yes, people who are comfortable in the registry AND compulsive about keeping the registry cleaned up and deleting unnecessary files might want to undo everything else done in this article, but there is no actual need to "fix" anything. The single registry value OEMBackground controls whether Windows uses its default logon screen or looks for a custom screen.
We do this as a part of our base build with our logo. Is there a great reason to do so? Probably not but we like the 'branding'.
The white font color is a little hard to pick up aginst our image, does anyone have any info on tweaking that? Thanks for this info, I will play with the shadow to see if that helps.
The white font color is a little hard to pick up aginst our image, does anyone have any info on tweaking that? Thanks for this info, I will play with the shadow to see if that helps.
The instructions work perfect for me. I have 4 users on my computer so we see the logon screen quite often. Thanks for this tutorial.
My question is, Is there a way to remove the OS name from showing up. I followed the directions and have my picture on the logon screen but there is a nice big "Windows 7 Professional" right in the bottom middle of the picture under the logon names.
It's not a huge deal but it would be nice to get rid of that.
My question is, Is there a way to remove the OS name from showing up. I followed the directions and have my picture on the logon screen but there is a nice big "Windows 7 Professional" right in the bottom middle of the picture under the logon names.
It's not a huge deal but it would be nice to get rid of that.
The steps above is the geek meothod.
This utility does the same thing with a few clicks.
http://tweaks.com/software/tweakslogon/
This utility does the same thing with a few clicks.
http://tweaks.com/software/tweakslogon/
"256 KB? Oh that should be enough for anybody."
LOL... Sound familiar?
LOL... Sound familiar?
So that totally did not work - instead I now get a snail's pace bootup where every desktop icon draws itself slowly. And no wall paper change in the boot screen; there is a "background.bmp" file that is Untouchable in the System32 oobe folder that is the boot screen. You need permission from the TrustedInstaller to change it.
So now I will try rolling back to undo the damage.
This is a WIN7 pro clean install on a AMD quadcore system.
So now I will try rolling back to undo the damage.
This is a WIN7 pro clean install on a AMD quadcore system.
And yes, you will have to take whatever measures necessary to "own" that file.
Ok, so i don;t have an OEM version. So how can i do this? (I cannot find the OEMBackground value in the registry)
Our State has implemented tighter security protocols. One of them is to put a warning of improper use in the logon page. We have already figured this out and are implementing it as we get to the over 2500 computers within our organization.
I wonder if there is a way to do this in the MDT tool?
Install the OS the way you want. Remove things you don't need. Set basic local settings. Add the company logo to the startup screen. Run Sysprep /generalize. Then use DISM to capture an image of the install.
The resulting image can be deployed with MDT to other computers.
The resulting image can be deployed with MDT to other computers.
I just did it as he wrote it, I just followed the steps. Neat.
I run Windows 7 64 bit. So far that Value does not exist in my registry. I backed up the registry, added the key as discussed and voila! I'm in love! I have some really nice images from an online 3D graphics source and some of his older work is small enough to work - and correctly sized for my 1920x1280 resolution 
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