Welcome Screen Wallpaper

[user]

Does anyone know how to change the welcome screen
wallpaper?

 

[David Candy]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp
Tweakui, Logon, Settings

 

[Anando [MS-MVP]]

Hi,

If you want to do it the old-fashioned way, open the registry editor (Start >> Run REGEDIT ) and
navigate to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop and double click on 'wallpaper' on the right
pane and enter the full path to the wallpaper of your choice.

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[Guest]

I tried that, it doesn't work (EX: C:\Document and
Settings\omni\Desktop\Images\Sky.jpg Is that right?)

-----Original Message-----
Hi,

If you want to do it the old-fashioned way, open the

registry editor (Start >> Run REGEDIT ) and

navigate to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop

and double click on 'wallpaper' on the right

 

[Anando [MS-MVP]]

It has to be a .BMP (bitmap) file only.

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[Guest]

still not work

 

[Guest]

Hi,

I have no idea why it does not work. You may use TweakUI to change the welcome screen wallpaper. Under TweakUI, navigate to Logon >> Settings and put a check next to wallpaper. The current wallpaper would be used at the welcome screen.

Download TweakUI from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

 

[Guest]

Well, the thing is i could have use download software to
change it but i dont want to. Can you check my directory
if it's right?

HKEY_USERS - control panel - desktop - wallpaper -
C:\Documents and
Settings\omni\Desktop\Image\MyWall\Sky.bmp

Thanks for all your help

 

[Anando [MS-MVP]]

Slight error..it is :

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop

and try enclosing the path in quotes like "C:\Documents and
Settings\omni\Desktop\Image\MyWall\Sky.bmp" Check to see you if you missed/added a space or
something by mistake.

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[Guest]

i checked, there's nothing wrong, i didn't put the quotes.
When my computer restart,the pictures shown after the
bootscreen and before the logon screen for like 5 seconds
then it's replaced by the blue screen again!

 

[Anando [MS-MVP]]

Hi,

This is strange. Did you try the process through TweakUI ?

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[Guest]

I dont have TweakUI

 

[Anando [MS-MVP]]

Hi,

You may download TweakUI from:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp


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[David Candy]

That's what I said at the beginning.

 

[Guest]

I downloaded tweakui, but when i run the file, it got an
error message

 

[Ranjit]

Does anyone know how to change the welcome screen
wallpaper?

Hi,

I too am facing similar issues with my windows XP professional (version
2002, service pack 1).
I tried both the tweaks mentioned in this thread.

1) Changing the HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper key to
the one I want.
making sure that the image is a bit map image (.bmp).
making sure that there are no spaces in the path, and putting the whole path
in quotes anyways.
Result - no success

2) Using tweak UI to copy my current wallpaper to the welcome screen.
When I select the "wallpaper" and "screensaver" and hit the copy button,
tweak UI informs that the computer need to be rebooted. However after
clicking on the OK button in the messages, the checks are gone.
Since nothing happened after rebooting, next time i checked the checkboxes
and hit the appy button instead of copy, the tick marks stayed, but after
the reboot the changes weren't reflected. (The value of the regsitry key
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper, did get changed to the
current wallpaper path, but still nothing comes up on the welcome screen).

Any more input on this one?
TIA

-Ranjit