How to customize logon background/screen in windows 7

May 7th, 2009

If you don’t like the default logon background of windows 7,or you want to change the background to a picture you like,you can do it easily in windows 7 without any third-party softwares.Below will give you a simple guide about how to do it.

1.First launch regedit then go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background

regedit1

2.Change the vaulue of  OEMBackground to 1,which indicate to enale logon background customization  in windows 7

oembackground

Tip:If you can not find this entry in your registry,please try to create one.

3.Go to %windir%\system32\oobe\ ,create folder info then create another folder backgrounds under info,then copy your own background picture here and rename it to backgrounddefault

backgrounddefault

Note:The size of this picture must be less than 256k ,or it will not work.

4.Done,you can see your new logon background after logoff.It’s so easy,isn’t it!

4 Responses to “How to customize logon background/screen in windows 7”

  1. Jack says:

    Thanks a lot,it works

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  4. anima2r says:

    holy shit. it worked. ausum. thanks

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