Customize Your Logon Screen on Windows7

If your operating system is windows 7 and not any other open source systems then you would definitely like to modify your system as per your wish. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could perform some Windows 7 tweaks? Well, this article shall contain the process of changing your log on screen without using TuneUp Utilities, just by editing the registries.

1. Press Win+R key and Type “REGEDIT” at run prompt (without quotes). Alternately, Press Start, click on Run and type.
2. Locate following registry key: HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background.
3. Now in right-side pane, change value of OEMBackground to 1 (originally it should be 0).
4. Now go to %windir%\system32\oobe
5. Create a new folder info and another folder background backgrounds within newly created info folder
6. Folder path should look like this %windir%\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds
7. Now place your desired logon wallpaper within this background folder with file name as backgroundDefault.jpg. However you need to take care of one thing(Click here to see the details).
8. You are all done. Restart your system to see the effect.