Logon screen background image

[cafed00d]

Try this (and read the whole post first before responding). Download Process Monitor from sysinterals (google it), and then download and install the logon background changer app I mentioned earlier. Start up both of them. Configure Process Monitor to monitor events only from the logon background changer app. Then use the app to change the logon background. Process Monitor should then tell you which files the changer app wrote. One of them should be the file you are looking for.

[sparrowman66]

did you try changing the file format to .bmp

[cafed00d]

did you try changing the file format to .bmp

That should not be required. On my system the logon background image is a JPG file. Though the file must be < 250KB in size (and BMP files are usually huge because they are not compressed).

[Just Plain Fred]

the answer to my question? There is nothing new to me in any of the posts in this thread. I want to find the image that Windows does use.

Does anyone know?

"B"
Hello... This is probably not the answer that your looking for but... This is not just a "Background" ...It has the ability for input...So maybe that's the clue you need... must be a small program...with the "Image " contained within .. Hey it's past my bedtime...Just a thought Regards Fred

[bbearren]

"B"
Hello... This is probably not the answer that your looking for but... This is not just a "Background" ...It has the ability for input...So maybe that's the clue you need... must be a small program...with the "Image " contained within .. Hey it's past my bedtime...Just a thought Regards Fred

Steve1951 was right; it's in imageres.dll. Now all I need is some time, if I can find some...

[Just Plain Fred]

I've asked this question on Microsoft Answers and haven't gotten a reply yet...

Where does Windows 7 store the background image file for the logon screen? It is not Windows\System32\oobe\background.bmp. I've changed that image, but it has no effect.

Does anyone know where the file is, and its name?

"B"
Hello... Thought that you might be interested in this Windows 7 Files I found this site (as of now I'm using (fooling with) XP-Pro) to "Hack" XP into "7" or The Vista Sidebar. This is a very interesting web site ...Hope you find this as useful as i.... Regards Fred

[bbearren]

This is a very interesting web site ...Hope you find this as useful as i.... Regards Fred

Thanks, Fred. I've bookmarked it for further study.

[artied2]

Why bother with that. Here is an app that will do it for you: http://www.julien-manici.com/windows...round_changer/

Ok . . . this is looking more and more like a virus. I click on the "download" button on that page. It takes me to a different page with a DL button. That one takes me to an even different DL page, and then finally I have to wait 30-something seconds to get a free "download manager". I don't need a DL manager. What am I doing wrong? How do I actually get the logon screen changer?

Thanks;
Artie

Edit: Ok, I found it, but they sure do bury it in a mountain of spam.