[HOW TO]Change welcome/logon screen in Windows 7

If you are bored of the same blue welcome screen in Windows 7 then here is the trick for you. Using this trick you can easily change your Windows 7 background image.

• Press windows+r to open run and then type regedit. Press Enter.
• Now in Registry Editor navigate to the following key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background. There create a new DWORD value and name it as OEMBackground. Set it’s value as Hexadecimal – 1 .
  
  
• Now go to c:\Windows\System32\oobe and there create new folder and name it as info.There create one more folder and name this one as  backgrounds .
• Now copy the image you want as background for welcome screen here and rename the image to backgroundDefault, also make sure that the image size is less than 256 KB.
  
• If you need any good background image for welcome screen search for “Windows 7 Wallpapers” in Google image search. You will get many.

Enjoy

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