Change image of Welcome screen - Windows XP

[Chatwin]

Hi guys
I'm using windows XP so cab anybody tell me how to change its boring welcome screen. I searched on it but didn't get any sufficient answer. I don't wanna use any customization software because I know sometimes they harm the OS. Any suggestions will be helpful. Thank you

You can change the image that appears before your profile on the Welcome screen.
T do this save your photo or the image which you want to use as welcome screen. The image size is not important since it will be automatically resized to fit in the window.
Follow the these steps:

1) Click the Start button, click Settings and then Control Panel.

2) Double click on the User Accounts module.

3) Click your account and click the Modify my image.

4) Select the new image in the list and click the Change button portrait.

5) To use your own pictures, click Find other images.

[Jackie]

Hello to change your welcome screen please follow below tips


1: Store the picture in Mypictures
2: Click on start and go to control panel
3: Put your pc theme as classic view
4: Go to users Account Window
5: And then to your account name and click on change my Picture

SELECT the picture that you want


windows will set the picture at welcome screen.

[Chatwin]

Thanks guys for your quick reply but this will change his icon picture for his log in, but it wont change the welcome screen.... I need to change the welcome screen...

[TheGreatOne]

To put your favorite image or picture in the background of the logon screen :

1) Click the Start button and select "Run"

2) In the "open" field, type regedit and click ok

3) In the registry editor, navigate to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\CONTROL
PANEL\DESKTOP and double-click the string "wallpaper"

4)Enter the full path and filename of the .bmp image that you want to use as background (the image must be in .bmp format)

5)Click "ok" and close the registry editor

6) The changes take effect as soon as you log off and on again.

If you change the string HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\CONTROL PANEL\DESKTOP\TILEWALLPAPER to 1 instead of 0, you will get a tiled effect with the bitmap .

Note: Backup the registry first before going to change it.

[mogli]

Originally Posted by TheGreatOne

To put your favorite image or picture in the background of the logon screen :

1) Click the Start button and select "Run"

2) In the "open" field, type regedit and click ok

3) In the registry editor, navigate to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\CONTROL
PANEL\DESKTOP and double-click the string "wallpaper"

4)Enter the full path and filename of the .bmp image that you want to use as background (the image must be in .bmp format)

5)Click "ok" and close the registry editor

6) The changes take effect as soon as you log off and on again.

If you change the string HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\CONTROL PANEL\DESKTOP\TILEWALLPAPER to 1 instead of 0, you will get a tiled effect with the bitmap .

Note: Backup the registry first before going to change it.

I tried this, and what happened is that it shows the image for a second or two before the Welcome screen comes up. I successfully used resourcehacker to change the text of the Welcome screen, but the image is still that default XP two-tone blue.

[Vishal Singh]

A better utility tools is available which changes the Welcome screen from the Windows XP. This tools is known as the TuneUp Utility that maintain the Windows operating system and also increase the functionality of the same. This tools give the user to change the Windows welcome as well as the log in screen without having any effect on the system.

[mogli]

Actually, I found LogonStudio from Stardock to do exactly what I want - creation and insertion of file. Well, almost exactly. In the midst of this, it creates a new stock logonui.exe, undoing the text change I did originally. I could either modify this file, or go into the registry and re-point to my modified one. I chose the latter. (Also, it keeps the bottom portion of the olde image, or something - but this is a minor issue, admittedly.)

-Later: no, the file LS creates is called logonuix.exe, so you have to alter that one. The good thing though is it seems to always use that one it first created. It doesn't create another one, so once you modify the text in that, you can create new logon screens and the text stays the same.