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The Complete Guide to Customize Windows 7 Logon and Lock Computer Screen

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The Complete Guide to Customize Windows 7 Logon and Lock Computer Screen

Happy New Year from Recipester.org team, we wish you all the best for the year 2010.

In the New Year, do you want to make any changes for your Windows Operating System? You may have used Windows for many years, from Windows 98 (or even Windows 95), to later Windows 2000, Windows XP, and now Windows 7. It is interesting and exciting to upgrade, customize, or even tweak the Windows OS, and on the other hand, it is quite necessary to do the job.

As a shining star in Windows family, there are many tools supported and optimized for Windows 7. Tired to see the Windows logon and “lock computer” screen? There are many solutions for you.

Windows 7 to officially support logon UI background customization.

First of all, create a DWORD value named OEMBackground in the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background key, and set its value to 1 (You can delete the value if you want to restore the settings). Then, create a folder named backgrounds in the path %windir%\system32\oobe\info.

At last, copy the JPG files according to your monitor’s resolution. For example,

backgroundDefault.jpg (MUST-HAVE)

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

All the images must be less than 256kb in size. If you are using a resolution that is not provided in the image file, system will display backgroundDefault.jpg.

If you are not satisfied with the complicated manual process (modify Windows Registry may cause system failure), there are many tools can do more for you.

If you want to simply change logon screen, Windows 7 LogonUI Changer will be your best choice. Download and launch it, select Enable, then specify a resolution and an image under 256 kb, it’s OK!

Windows 7 LogonUI Changer

Windows 7 LogonUI Changer

More than logon screen, the Windows 7 Logon Screen Editor also provides few extra customization tricks. Click on the “+” button, and you can change the shadow and button transparency settings.

Windows 7 Logon Screen Editor

Windows 7 Logon Screen Editor

Still want more? Here is another cool utility, Windows 7 Logon Screen Rotator, which lets you to rotate Windows 7 Logon background screen randomly.

Windows 7 Logon Screen Rotator

Windows 7 Logon Screen Rotator

You can set multiple images as logon screen background, interchanging them at a desired interval.

“Wait… How about my Lock Computer Background? The tools and utilities listed above seem not including the feature…”

Don’t worry, the last tool I want to introduce aims to solve the problem. Windows 7 Logon Controller lets you to set any jpeg image file as logon background, lock computer, and has the ability reset to default background.

Windows 7 Logon Controller

Windows 7 Logon Controller

Enough yet? Welcome to pay more attention to my further posts :)

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