As you guys know, we are huge fans of Windows customization. We loved the Themes feature in Windows 7 so much we decided to create themes for our blog readers, who like customization as much as we do. Themes are a great way for a personalized experience on your computer.

There are many logon wallpaper around that will help you to tweak and customize your logon screen. One of the best tools to change your logon screen on Vista and Windows 7 is LogonStudio by Stardock. It’s a free tool that comes in handy whenever you want to change your logon background. Feb 15, 2011 - Customize Your Windows 7 Login Background. Open up your run command. ( Type in regedit. Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Software> Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Authentication > LogonUI > Background. Double-click on OEMBackground. Change this value to 1. Click Okay and close out of regedit.

But customization in Windows 7 is not limited to themes, there are few other things that can be personalized. One of them is your Windows Logon Screen – where you input your Windows Username and password.

With this nifty little program called “Logon Screen” we can change that background to anything we like. Logon Screen Usage and Options: Logon Screen is a small and simple program that will help you change your Windows 7 logon screen background with a push of a button. One point that makes this application different from other Logon Screen changers applications is the ability to integrate with the Windows 7 context menu.

This integration is optional and can be turned off if needed. Download (link below) and installation is simple and straightforward. Once installed you can access it by right clicking on your desktop screen. This is the default view of Logon Screen program.

It shows the default background image of Windows logon screen. Chastushki pro povarov prikoljnie. You can click on browse and select any background wallpaper you like. Click on the “browse” button and select any image you like. Once selected, click on “Apply” to apply it on the Logon Screen. If the image is too big to be applied on the logon screen the program would resize it accordingly. Click on “Yes” to resize and apply.

You can then click on the “Lock” button to check how the logon screen looks. Don’t like what you see? Just click on “Restore” to restore to the default background, or you can choose another background image.

Integration in Right Click Context Menu: The option to change the Logon Screen background image is integrated in the right-click menu on desktop, along with personalization option. This is for a quick access to checking the Logon Screen background. Don’t want it in the menu?

Just click on setting option at top right of Logon Screen Window and uncheck the option to show this in context menu. Conclusion: Logon Screen does its job quite well.

It even resizes the images if they are big in size, and doesn’t outright reject them as being too big or too wide. It also has the option to be included in the context menu, which makes accessing it much more easy.

Changing Desktop Background images can’t be more convenient than this and Logon Screen does its job perfectly. Further Reading.

I already know the registry tweak and the Windows System32 oobe info backgrounds jpg sizes and such, and I don't need to know where to download any free utility that does that for me. I can do that (and have) myself, but that's not what I want to do now. What I want to know is where Windows 7 stores the backgound image used as the default logon screen, and the name of that image file. It is not the Windows System32 oobe background.bmp.

I've changed that one, but that doesn't change the default logon background image. If it is an image file that has a name, I can change it if I can find it. Does anyone know where the actual file is stored in Windows 7?

That's all I'm asking for; the location of the file that is actually used as the default Windows logon background. 'Let them that don't want it have memories of not gettin' any.'

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