{"id":3075,"date":"2016-03-04T11:40:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T11:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2016-03-04T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T11:40:55","slug":"change-windows-7-logon-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/2016\/03\/change-windows-7-logon-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Windows 7 “Logon” Background"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s two types of background images.<\/p>\n

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  1. Windows Desktop Backgrounds<\/li>\n
  2. Windows Logon\u00a0Backgrounds<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This script\u00a0will\u00a0add the required flags and permissions to the registry and create the “dummy” jpg files which are used to display the “Logon” background. This is the screen which displays the user logon details (At “Logon”).<\/p>\n

    \r\necho OFF\r\nset bgfolder=%windir%\\system32\\oobe\\Info\\backgrounds\\\r\n\r\nREM Creates the backgrounds folder\r\nmd %bgfolder%\r\n\r\nREM Creates the dummy background files\r\nFOR %%f IN (backgroundDefault.jpg background1280x960.jpg background1024x768.jpg background1600x1200.jpg background1440x900.jpg background1920x1200.jpg background1280x768.jpg background1360x768.jpg background1024x1280.jpg background960x1280.jpg background900x1440.jpg background768x1280.jpg background768x1360.jpg) DO echo 2&gt; %bgfolder%%%f 1&gt; NUL\r\n\r\nREM Gives all authenticated users the right to write these files\r\nFOR %%f IN (backgroundDefault.jpg background1280x960.jpg background1024x768.jpg background1600x1200.jpg background1440x900.jpg background1920x1200.jpg background1280x768.jpg background1360x768.jpg background1024x1280.jpg background960x1280.jpg background900x1440.jpg background768x1280.jpg background768x1360.jpg) DO icacls %bgfolder%%%f \/grant *S-1-5-11:(R,W,M)\r\n\r\nREM Forces the use of the custom background permanently\r\nreg add HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Authentication\\LogonUI\\Background \/v OEMBackground \/t REG_DWORD \/d 1 \/f\r\nreg add HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\System \/v UseOEMBackground \/t REG_DWORD \/d 1 \/f\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
    All you then need to do is add the background image you want to this folder directory:\u00a0%windir%\\system32\\oobe\\Info\\backgrounds\\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    There’s two types of background images. Windows Desktop Backgrounds Windows Logon\u00a0Backgrounds This script\u00a0will\u00a0add the required flags and permissions to the registry and create the “dummy” jpg files which are used to display the “Logon” background. This is the screen which displays the user logon details (At “Logon”). echo OFF set bgfolder=%windir%\\system32\\oobe\\Info\\backgrounds\\ REM Creates the backgrounds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOPt8-NB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3076,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions\/3076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}