background image for the logon screen

If you do not want to change the color of the screen, perhaps you have an image that you would like to set as the background to appear behind the logon window. Once again, the only

way to set this is to use the Registry Editor to hack the default user settings which are displayed on the logon screen. To get started, follow these steps:

1. Click the Start menu and select Run. Then type regedit in the box and click OK. This will start up the Registry Editor.

2. Once the Registry Editor has loaded, you will want to expand HKEY_USERS,
.DEFAULT, Control Panel, and the Desktop key. Next, you should see all of the different entries for desktop properties. The entries that you will be interested in are Wallpaper and WallpaperStyle.

3. Right-click the Wallpaper entry and select Modify. Then type in the full path to the image that you want to use on your computer. Let's assume that you want to set the nice grassy hills photo as your background. This file is located at C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper.The name of the file is bliss.bmp.Therefore,the full path of the image file is C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper\bliss.bmp.

4. Once you have the path to the file set, you can click the OK button to save the change. Now you can change the Wallpaper Style entry if you want to change how the wallpaper will be displayed. You have three different options: 0 centered, 1 tiled, 2 stretched to full screen. If you want to change the way it is displayed, just right-click the Wallpaper Style entry and select Modify, then enter the corresponding number value for the style you want to use. Click OK to save, and you are finished!

Now you have worked with customizing the look of the background, let's move on to changing the way the sign-in box looks.