Change the Logon screen

You can change the image of your login screen using this trick.

Exactly follow the steps given below, any change you made may make a mistake.If you are an advanced user, you know how to make changes in the steps.

Complete all the following stages.


Stage 1: Making the image to show in login screen.

Select the image file for the login screen. The image must be in .bmp format.
To make an image in BMP format: Open the image in MS Paint. Select File > Save As.. , type the file name, under Save as file type:, select 24-bit Bitmap and click Save.
Best fit size for the image is 800 x 600. Otherwise the image may stretch.(Better use Photoshop or ACDSee image editor)


Stage 2: Making copy of logonui.exe for editing
Steps:

1. Select Run from Start menu. Type the following and press OK.

xcopy c:\windows\system32\logonui.exe c:\LoginScreenEdit\
(where C: is your windows drive)

That makes a copy of the file logonui.exe in system32 folder to a folder LoginScreenEdit, which is in C drive.

Stage 3: Editing logonui.exe

For this step, you need a software named Resource Hacker. You can download it from here.
Extract the downloaded file and install the software.


Steps:

1. Start Resource Hacker software.

3. Select Open from File menu.

3. Select the file logonui.exe from the folder c:\LoginScreenEdit\ and click Open.

4. From the Action menu, select Replace Bitmap...

5. Under Select bitmap to replace, select 100.

6. Click on Open file with new bitmap..

7. Select the bitmap image to use and click Open.

8. Now a preview is shown in left bottom. Click Replace button on right side bottom to change the Logon screen image.

9. Select File > Save.
10. Close Resource Hack software.

Stage 4: Editing Registry to use this edited logonui.exe

Steps:

1. Open Registry Editor. ( Start > Run > regedit) [(No Run?)(Regedit disabled?)]
2. Get to this location.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

[directly jump to a registry key]

3. Export the key Winlogon. (Right click > Export)

4. In the right pane double click on UIHost.

Change its value to C:\\LoginScreenEdit\\logonui.exe (the path of edited logonui.exe file)

5. Close the Registry Editor.


You have done your work. Press Windows Key + L to view the new login screen.

If the image is distorted, use Adobe Photoshop or ACDSee image editor to convert the image files to do that.

If you cannot do the job, give me your image's link, I'll make it for you, iff the time gives a time.

Questions on this topic can be posted in my Orkut Scrap Book.