how to change windows7 logon screen

When you start your windows system, it stops at logon window for password. You can customize this logon screen background with any image of your choice. you can add your image to the logon background. You can do it with a small tweak. You need to choose a image for background then a registry editing. Follow these simple steps for logon screen background change.

1.Choose a image which you want to set as the background. It should be a .jpg file and it’s size should not exceed 245KB.

2. The image resolution can be anything of your choice. However I prefer 1440 x 900 or 1024 x 768. You can use any of the photo editing software such as Photoshop to compress and set the resolution for your image. Once you’re done, save this image as backgroundDefault.jpg.


3. Copy this image to the location


C:\Windows\system32\oobe\info\backgrounds
You will need to create that path if it does not already exist on your computer.


4. Now open the Registry Editor (Start --> Run --> Type regedit) and navigate to the following key


HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background


If Background does not exist rightclick LogonUI, select New and then Key, and then name it Background. Now locate OEMBackground (listed on the right side). If it does not exist, right-click Background and select New and then DWORD and name it OEMBackground.


5. Double-click on OEMBackground and set the Value Data to 1.


6. Now log-off to see the new logon screen background. If you would like to revert back to the default background, just set the Value Data back to 0.