{"id":429332,"date":"2010-03-15T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652419620964346731.post-6627261467810416262"},"modified":"2010-03-15T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T08:00:00","slug":"how-to-change-the-login-background-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/429332","title":{"rendered":"How To Change The Login Background in Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

This one I learned from episode 704 of  Hak5<\/a>. Snubs and Darren did a GoToAssist spot, and in that spot she gives a really cool tip on how to change the login screen of Windows 7 using a simple registry edit!<\/p>\n

How friggin\u2019 awesome is that? It is almost just like the good ol\u2019 days with Windows XP! I wrote about how to change the login for Windows XP<\/a> a while back. The process for Windows 7 is a little different, but is basically just as easy. <\/p>\n

All you need is administrator rights so you can modify the registry, and create subfolders under your Windows directory, and a jpeg image that is under 256kb. Easy right? Lets do this!<\/p>\n

Here is a screenshot from my Windows 7 Enterprise VM:<\/p>\n

\"Windows<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Boring right? Lets change this sucka! If you do not see any of these folders or keys, just create them! Here is how we change it:<\/p>\n

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  1. Click Start > Run<\/strong> type in Regedit<\/font><\/strong> and click OK <\/li>\n
  2. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\
    CurrentVersion\\Authentication\\LogonUI\\Background<\/font><\/em><\/strong> <\/li>\n
  3. Double click the OEMBackground<\/font><\/em><\/strong> DWORD and change the value from 0<\/strong> to 1<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  4. If it doesn\u2019t exist create a new DWORD value called OEMBackground<\/font><\/em><\/strong> and set the value to 1<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  5. Browse to %systemroot%\\system32\\oobe\\info<\/font><\/em><\/strong> (Once again, if info isn\u2019t there create it)<\/li>\n
  6. Create a folder called backgrounds<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. Inside the backgrounds<\/font><\/em><\/strong> folder place your jpeg image (Must be under 256kb)<\/li>\n
  8. Rename your jpeg to backgrounddefault.jpg<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  9. Reboot<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    When Windows boots back up instead of boring Microsoft wallpaper, you will now have epic awesomeness! Check it:<\/p>\n

    \"pimp\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

    Pretty cool right? I thought so too! Know of any other cool customization tips for Windows 7? Hit us up in the comments!<\/p>\n

    Technorati Tags: how to<\/a>,change<\/a>,pre-login<\/a>,welcome<\/a>,login<\/a>,screen<\/a>,background<\/a>,wallpaper<\/a>,windows 7<\/a><\/div>\n


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    This one I learned from episode 704 of  Hak5. Snubs and Darren did a GoToAssist spot, and in that spot she gives a really cool tip on how to change the login screen of Windows 7 using a simple registry edit! How friggin\u2019 awesome is that? It is almost just like the good ol\u2019 days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}