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May 24, 2010

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background, UI, Windows 7

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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.


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Comments (3)

  1. Michael

    August 27, 2011 at 8:05 am

    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

  2. Matt

    December 26, 2011 at 1:24 pm

    Nothing seems to work with a 1920×1080 monitor. Anyone had any luck here?

  3. Arnab

    April 20, 2012 at 4:12 am

    It doesn’t work

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