Comments on: Windows 7 to officially support logon UI background customization

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By: Andrea Moro

Andrea Moro — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:15:47 +0000

This post looks like interesting as well and offer a tool for change the Windows 7 login’s background.

http://weblogs.asp.net/lduveau/archive/2009/10/15/windows-7-logon-background-changer.aspx

By: LizzieB

LizzieB — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:41:06 +0000

Great tip, but instead of going into the registry, I prefer using the Group Policy Editor. You need to be an administrator to do it this way, but it’s less of chance of doing harm to the registry.

To access, type gpedit.msc in the Start menu search field (of just enter the words: group policy).

Select Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Logon > Always use custom logon background.
Select Enabled.
Click Apply.
Click Okay.

By: Bret

Bret — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:18:14 +0000

Thanks Rafael, this is an excellent tip. It works perfectly but you do have to pay close attention to the 256KB limit for the image.

@Anonymous: I’m with Dave on this one buddy, I never have issues with Windows itself. I occasionally have issues with poorly written programs or drivers running in Windows but that’s no different than Linux. Perhaps when the gaming and hardware (specifically peripherals) industries fully embrace Linux I will switch, or perhaps when I stop gaming on PCs.

By: bdavis

bdavis — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:47:29 +0000

This is very useful to get rid of the annoying image that is included. Thx! At least if I get an OEM PC with some annoying logo on the login screen I know how to remove it.

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By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:45:16 +0000

@Anonymous: I’m sure we’d all switch to Linux if Windows wasn’t working for us. I’m sorry if you have a problem with Windows but most of us don’t and find Linux a pain to configure and use productively.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:44:16 +0000

Man, Linux has had this feature since forever. Even “minimalist” login managers like slim have had this feature. On top of that, we can customize more than just the effing background. Once again, Microsoft has to claw at the wall to catch up and still falls short.

Why do people use Windows again? They fooled themselves into thinking they need it and that Linux doesn’t work?

I’m telling you, Linux stomps Windows when it comes to desktop features.

By: Borek

Borek — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:32:30 +0000

win 7 32bit – ultimate

By: Borek

Borek — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:31:08 +0000

..thank You, works great !!!… Just the way you described it…

By: Zrce

Zrce — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:23:50 +0000

thanks that works perfect.

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By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:14:12 +0000

I’ve got this working perfectly on one monitor but, as Ant said, I’ve got two monitors and the right-hand monitor just goes black when I lock the computer. It’s annoying because under Windows XP the desktop background used to stay as it was when I was logged in when I locked the workstation. Wish there was away for my lovely, wide image to fill both screens even when my computer was locked!

By: Asif

Asif — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:11:54 +0000

First of all I must say that this is a great article. But there is some security concerns. As microsoft is a giant player they always checks for their registry (if you regularly update your system). I have Windows7 Ultimate 64 bit installed. I follow all the steps you mentioned. Manually edit the registry and so on. After that my desired image appears while logging on. But after few days a defender update (provided obviously by Microsoft) took palce. The next time I boot by PC the default logon screen (the dirty one) appear again. But all of sudden after giving the password, a windows authentication popup appears above a black screen. And it says that mine one is not an authenticate one. Although it is directly collected from Microsoft. Then it wants to activate. I simply follow. Activation was also successfull(offline mode). I checked for event viewer. There I found a error about logon. And it says that my registry was being used by another process (appears for the period while I did have my desired LogOn screen). I googled for this but didn’t find any satisfactory explanation. Can you please say me why this happened and what i need to do to keep my desired Logon background?

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:41:14 +0000

Arghh!

It took me a while to figure out that this won’t work with Total Commander, since it is 32 bit. If you think Total Commander copied the files to %windir%\system32\oobe\info\backgrounds, it didn’t. It copied them to %windir%\sysWOW64\oobe\info\backgrounds. Using Windows Explorer works.

Windows 64 bit can be a bitch.

By: sturm

sturm — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:39:14 +0000

i can’t seem to get this to work.. i bought a dell desktop, running win7 64-bit… the folder and stuff exists, and i see a few dell backgrounds in the folder, but i can’t seem to copy/move anything in or out of the folder.. i get an error saying the system cannot find the path specified (i use teracopy)…

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By: Tony B.

Tony B. — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:57:37 +0000

BTW, to add to Steve’s comment, don’t forget to rename the image you place in the backgrounds folder to backgroundDefault.jpg

T.B.

By: Tony B.

Tony B. — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:52:27 +0000

Great tweak. Win 7 Enterprise worked great. Thanks for thehelp.
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By: steve

steve — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:27:40 +0000

@Kung-fu Kingstar you don’t put the files in the registry. You put them on the System drive (C: usually) in the directory mentioned above: %windir%\system32\oobe\info\backgrounds. Just copy that, open up windows explorer and paste in that path. It may tell you that it doesn’t exist. you may have to paste in %windir%\system32\oobe and then create the other folders. That’s what I had to do (Win7 Enterprise VL)

I pasted in %windir%\system32\oobe and then created the folder in oobe called info and one inside info called backgrounds. then put the file in the backgrounds folder.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:18:30 +0000

Thanks for posting this.

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