Jan 21, 2012  This tutorial will show you how to change the Windows 7 logon screen background image as well as the user account image and desktop background. How to Set a Custom Logon Screen Background on. Windows 7 Logon Background Changer is a free open source software that let you change the wallpaper of the Windows 7 logon screen (also known as 'welcome screen', 'login screen' or LogonUI). It works with Windows 7 Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, Enterprise and Starter, in x86 or x64 (32 or 64 bits).

Reading through the search results, they actually do let you without any hacking, but it's still a bit hackerish. From: Use the following Group Policy setting in Windows 7 • Start the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) • Go to the following branch: Computer Configuration Administrative Templates System Logon • Set the following option to Enabled Always use custom logon background The next step, it says, is to copy your background into C: Windows System32 oobe info backgrounds as backgroundDefault.jpg. The built-in way is not exposed to users via any nice interface, but it's simple enough to -- I wouldn't describe it as a 'hacker-way'. If you want the user/pass/domain style, you can get that by enabling the group policy setting for 'do not show last username'.

If you have Windows 7 Pro, Ultimate or Enterprise, you can change it by opening gpedit.msc from the Run box, and navigating to Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options, and finding 'Interactive logon: do not display last user name'. If you have Windows 7 Home, you will have to change it in the registry by going to HKLM Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Policies System and changing the value from 0 to 1. Kasparov computer chess game. As far as I can tell there are supposedly 'official ways' to change it, but they still require a registry file to be run. There are also miscellaneous programs, hacks, etc. To do it, but they claim is the 'official way' to change it: • Download the registry file from. Extract the file and double-click on the file to enable this feature (Alternative method: right-click, select Merge).

• Now, head over to the following folder: C: Windows System32 oobe † (“C” is your Windows 7 Installation drive) • Here, create a new folder named Info. Again, create a new folder inside the Info folder and rename it as backgrounds. • Copy your favorite image file to this folder and rename it as backgroundDefault.jpg ‡. Note that the image must be in JPEG format and the size should be less than 256 KB. • You are done. Reboot your system and see the change.

__________ † “oobe” stands for “out-of-the-box experience”. ‡ The file name may also be of the form backgroundDefault DIMENSIONS.jpg; e.g., background960×1280.jpg or background1024×1280.jpg. The system will look first for the file whose name corresponds to the dimensions of the display; if it doesn't find that, it falls back to the generic backgroundDefault.jpg file. This is mostly useful if you are preparing a distribution that will be installed on multiple platforms (or a live CD or bootable flash drive that will be used on multiple platforms), or if you frequently change monitors, or the resolution on your display.

I already know the registry tweak and the Windows System32 oobe info backgrounds jpg sizes and such, and I don't need to know where to download any free utility that does that for me. I can do that (and have) myself, but that's not what I want to do now.

What I want to know is where Windows 7 stores the backgound image used as the default logon screen, and the name of that image file. It is not the Windows System32 oobe background.bmp. I've changed that one, but that doesn't change the default logon background image. If it is an image file that has a name, I can change it if I can find it. Does anyone know where the actual file is stored in Windows 7?

That's all I'm asking for; the location of the file that is actually used as the default Windows logon background. 'Let them that don't want it have memories of not gettin' any.' 'Gratitude is riches and complaint is poverty and the worst I ever had was wonderful.' .Brother Dave Gardner 'Experience is what you get when you're looking for something else.' .Sir Thomas Robert Deware.