How to change Welcome/Logon screen background

Surprised ! but its true. Now you can change Welcome/logon screen’s background in Windows 7 and its supported officially. Microsoft has made a change to customize or ability to load JPG images as background of the welcome/logon screen without using any third party software.

Although the functionality was designed for ease of OEMs to set their own backgrounds to Welcome/logon screen. It can be done by changing few registry settings and you can set your own background.

How To:

Run Registry Editor and navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background
Now create a DWORD value called OEMBackground and set it to 1
Now copy your image file (JPG file) into %windir%\system32\oobe\info\backgrounds and rename it to backgroundDefault.jpg (By default info & backgrounds folders don’t exist, so create them)

NOTE: Image must be less than 256kb in size.

Applies To:

Windows 7 Ultimate
Windows 7 Enterprise
Windows 7 Professional
Windows 7 Home Premium
Windows 7 Home Basic

33 responses to “How to change Welcome/Logon screen background”

*Samsung Wave *S8500

2012-09-03

I cannot find
%windir%system32oobeinfobackgrounds

1. Ramesh Kumar
  
  2012-09-03
  
  Yup… create this directory hierarchy because you are using a RETAIL copy of Windows.
stefpretty

2011-11-05

after i have create them and rename the pic why the screen can’t change to my picture?? must we change the old pic name ?? to what plz help me !!!! i can’t