Custom Login Wallpaper Windows 7
The wallpaper presented to you at the logon screen in Windows 7 gets pretty boring quickly. Easy to change? Relatively. You can find some third party tools, or have a go yourself with the instructions below:
1. Press win+r key and Type Regedit at run prompt
2. Locate following registry key
HK Local Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background
3. Now in right-side pane, change value of OEMBackground to 1.
4. Now place your custom image in %windir%\system32\oobe
5. Create a new folder info and background within newly created info folder
Folder path should look like this %windir%\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds
6. Now place your desired logon wallpaper within this background folder with file
name as backgroundDefault.jpg
Images Name with resolutions
backgroundDefault.jpg
background768×1280.jpg
background900×1440.jpg
background960×1280.jpg
background1024×1280.jpg
background1280×1024.jpg
background1024×768.jpg
background1280×960.jpg
background1600×1200.jpg
background1440×900.jpg
background1920×1200.jpg
background1280×768.jpg
background1360×768.jpg
NOTE: Images must be less than 256kb in size
The backgroundDefault.jpg image is loaded and stretched-to-fit when a resolution/ratio specific background cannot be found.
Michael
That registry entry works, but when you shutdown and restart the computer, the default background returns. I’ve found that creating this entry in the registry works better:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System]
“UseOEMBackground”=dword:00000001
Matt
Nothing seems to work with a 1920×1080 monitor. Anyone had any luck here?
Arnab
It doesn’t work