Are bored of seeing the same logon screen every day in Windows 7? Don’t worry I have a solution for you. You can now easily customize it to display the image of your favorite logon screen. In this article I will explain you how to do it.

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How to Change Your Windows 7 Logon Screen

The following process involves changing the registry and tweaking it to change the logon screen in Windows7

• Press Windows key + R. Type “regedit” and hit Enter.
• Now navigate to the following path as shown below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background

• On the right pane, right click on the blank space and choose New->DWORD Value. Give the name as “OEMBackground”.
• Double click on this newly created key and set the vale to –1. Chose the base as Hexadecimal and click “OK”.
• Go to your system drive (C:\) and navigate to C -> Windows ->System32 ->oobe.
• Create a new folder named “info”. Under “info” create another folder named as “backgrounds”.
• You are almost done. Now copy the image that you want to put in the logon screen into the “backgrounds” folder and rename it to “backgroundDefault”.
• Restart the computer and the change will be reflected.

If you want to switch to a different background, you have to restart the process from scratch.

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