Splash screen or whatever when logging in

[Sue A]

I've seen people here at work that have an image that is like a splash screen
when they log in. Its usually a personal picture that displays before the
Desktop loads and, I think, it may appear again when one logs out of Windows.
Does anyone know what that is called and how I can do the same? Thanks.

 

[Leonard Grey]

Perhaps you mean the Welcome Screen?

In a business setting, the network administrator decides how users log
in. The Welcome Screen is considered somewhat less secure, because the
user name is displayed on the monitor. Nevertheless, ask your network
administrator if they'll allow you to log in with the Welcome Screen.

 

[Sue A]

No, that's not it. We don't get a Welcome screen, just the old-fashioned log
in screen. I've seen other users with this and I don't think anyone has
Admin rights so there must be some way to do this as a regular user. I know
I can change the image on my Desktop to something personal but this little
"splash" screen thing has me stumped. I don't know if splash screen is the
correct terminology because it isn't truly a splash screen, just a user's
personal photo or whatever that appears anywhere from an instant to several
seconds before things load and the Desktop starts to get populated.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Tim Meddick]

Sue,
It's the .Default Desktop Wallpaper, that displays for just a
couple of seconds before Windows draws the Welcome screen.

To set the .Default wallpaper, so it will show for about 2 seconds like
a splash screen, you can either do it manually in the registry thus :

Open regedit.exe (by typing the same into the "Run" box) and navigate to
the following key :

HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Desktop

....then, under this key find the value called "Wallpaper" and change it
to whatever the full path is to your desired splash-screen image.

Also, while you're there, you can also set the value just below this
called "WallpaperStyle" to 2 (so that any image will be "stretched" to
fit the screen).

Reboot your machine to see the "splash screen" effect.


Alternatively, you can 'copy and paste' the following commands ether
into the "Run" box on the 'Start Menu' or into a 'Command Prompt'
(dos-box) window replacing the "C:\Windows\Whatever.jpg" with your image
file :



reg ADD "HKU\.Default\Control Panel\Desktop" /v Wallpaper /d
C:\Windows\Whatever.jpg /f


reg ADD "HKU\.Default\Control Panel\Desktop" /v WallpaperStyle /d 2 /f



(The above two commands should both be one-liners but may not appear so
due to line-wrap. Please ensure that both commands begin with 'reg' and
end with '/f')

Entering these two commands does the same as setting the registry
manually, it's just a bit quicker is all.

Similarly, reboot to see the splash-screen effect, just before the
Welcome screen appears.


*Note - Please exercise care when editing the registry, always create a
backup and / or create a 'System Restore' point first.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[DTM]

This where mine is C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper\logon.bmp We have a group policy
that puts it back to some ethical one on a reboot, So I just replaced mine,
gave it same name and made it read only....silly admins

 

[Tim Meddick]

DTM,
Are you sure that you read the original post?

Sue is not talking about "Wallpaper", per se, but if you set the Wallpaper reg value
under

HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Desktop

....you will find that it displays for a couple of seconds before the 'Welcome'
screen.

This is, I believe, what she was referring to when she talks about a "Splash Screen"
like-effect...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Jose]

I've seen people here at work that have an image that is like a splash screen
when they log in.  Its usually a personal picture that displays before the
Desktop loads and, I think, it may appear again when one logs out of Windows.
 Does anyone know what that is called and how I can do the same?  Thanks.

Why don't you go to one of your coworkers and say:

"Hey, that's pretty neat. You sure are smart. Will you show me how
to do something like that on my computer?"