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| How to Change Your Windows 7 Logon Screen |
How to Change Your Windows 7 Logon Screen
- Press Windows key + R. Type �regedit� and hit Enter.
- Now navigate to the following path as shown below:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionAuthenticationLogonUIBackground
- On the right pane, right click on the blank space and choose New->DWORD Value. Give the name as �OEMBackground�.
- Double click on this newly created key and set the vale to �1. Chose the base as Hexadecimal and click �OK�.
- Go to your system drive (C:) and navigate to C -> Windows ->System32 ->oobe.
- Create a new folder named �info�. Under �info� create another folder named as �backgrounds�.
- You are almost done. Now copy the image that you want to put in the logon screen into the �backgrounds� folder and rename it to �backgroundDefault�.
- Restart the computer and the change will be reflected.
If you want to switch to a different background, you have to restart the process from scratch.