Customize the Windows 7 log-on screen

Windows 7 makes it easy changing the Windows log-on screen.

1.

Go to start, and click on Run, type

Regedit

& press enter there.

2.

Navigate to :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVe

rsion\Authentication\ LogonUI\Background

3.

Double-click the OEMBackground DWORD key

4.

Set value of the key to 1.

5.

Select a background image for Logon Screen with size less than

256KB in size (Use of Image Resize software like VSO Resizer can

help)

6.

Copy that image into the

C:\Windows\system32\oobe\info\backgrounds

folder

7.

Rename the image to backgroundDefault.jpg

8.

Reboot, and now your logon Image would have changed.