How to Automatically Change Your Logon Screen in Windows 7

By SRChiP

Windows 7 specific posts are scarce on Computer Realm so I thought I’ll cover a post on an exclusive Windows 7 software for a change.

Windows 7 has native support for automatically changing the wallpaper. Windows 7 also supports changing the logon screen without any third party application.

Logon Screen Rotator (Windows 7) is a great application that goes a step further and allows more functionality by allowing automatic change of the logon screen at user-defined intervals. You also have the option to revert to the default image whenever you wish to do so.

This application also provides other functions like the ability to change the username style shown in the logon screen.

If you are weary of using third party applications and don’t mind getting your hands dirty you can dive into the registry and modify the logon screen using a key.

Open Registry Editor (type “regedit” in the Start menu) as administrator.

Go to this key ‘HKEY-LOCAL-MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Authentication/LogonUI/Background’.

Select the value ‘OEMBackground’, and change the value data to 1

If the key does not exist, create a new DWORD as OEMBackground.

Create this folder: /WINDOWS/system32/oobe/info/backgrounds

Copy a JPG image smaller than 250kb and name it as backgroundDefault.jpg (The JPG is stretched, so you should resize it according to your aspect ratio)

Download Logon Screen Rotator

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Merubah Logon Screen, Boot Screen, System Elements, dan Visual Style Pada Windows « KNOWLEDGE SITE September 6, 2010 9:07 am

[...] How to Automatically Change Your Logon Screen in Windows 7 (computer-realm.net) [...]
Gideon Kaluga June 12, 2011 11:07 pm

I have a problem with my PC. I can’t logon because there’s an error message which reads, “Interactive logon process initialization has failed. Please consult the event log for more details”. Can you guys help?

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