How to change the windows logon screen wallpaper

Are you bored of your boring windows logon screen?

Today learn to change the default windows logon screen to give your PC
There are two ways to do it

1) Using the Software:

There is an awesome free,cool,stunning,tiny software to do the job
you can get the tool here its really tiny and solid and no need to install
just extract and enjoy :D


Just select an image and click apply that's it!
To check your windows logon screen without restarting, simply click the windows button + L to see your windows logon screen

mine looks like this


2) Manually

Although the first methodology is simple and solid,some of you always wanted to do it the hard way!

Steps..to do it!

1) Hit Windows key + R

2) Type regedit

3) In that, navigate to the following folder

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Authentication>LogonUI>Background

4) You'll see a file called OEMBackground with the value 'DWORD' (if you don't have it create one by right clicking)


5) Double-click on OEMBackground,set its value to 1

6) You have successfully activated boot logon but it is temporary.It will change back to default whenever you try to change your theme.To make this permanent,you'll have to follow the following steps

7) Hit Windows + R again and type gpedit.msc

8) It will Open up the "Group Policy editor" in that navigate to the following

Computer Configuration>Administrative Templates>System>Logon

9) In Logon, navigate to the stringg "Always use custom login background"


10) Select Enable and Hit OK

Selecting your image:

Note that your image must be 256kb or less in size

Put your image in C:\Windows>System32>oobe>info>backgrounds

Normally,the folder doesn't exist so create one

Put your image in backgrounds folder it should be named as backgroundDefault.jpg ( this is important )


Job Done!!

Hit Windows key + L to see your new logon screen 

enjoy!




2 comments:

  1. still not working.. i follow every instruction you made..

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  2. my downloaded wallpaper size is 1366x768, 169kb

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