Change Logon Screen Background Picture in Windows 7

Ever wanted to change the background image that appears on the logon screen? Follow this tutorial to find out how!

Note: This does not work on WIndows 8, 8.1 or 10.

1. In order to allow customisation of the backgorund image, you need to change some settings, open your start menu and search 'regedit.exe', regedit.exe should appear in the menu, select it to open the registry editor.

2. In the registry editor, you'll see some folders on the left. Using the down arrow next to each folder, navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background.

3. Find OEMBackground. If you do not see it, right click and select DWORD, then call it OEMBackground

4. Open OEMBackground and change the value to 1.

5. Now you need to find the image you want to use as your background image (it must be less than 256kb in size.)

6. Now go to the following location in an explorer window: C:\Windows\System32\oobe (Change the C if you use another drive as your Winodws directory)

7. Find and open a folder called 'info' (if it does not exist, create it.)

8. Find and open a folder called 'backgrounds' (if it does not exist, create it.)

9. Paste your image in the backgounds folder.

10. Rename it to: 'backgroundDefault

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