Change Login Screen Background In Windows 7

Today i am going to tell you how you can change the boring login screen of windows 7 with your own favourite background in just minutes. In this method i am not going to use any third party software and it will not slow down your computer at all. I am going to use the registry present in windows for this little tweak. Interesting isn't it?

Here are the simple steps to follow :

- Firstly open run by pressing windows key+R. 
- Now type regedit and click OK. Press Yes (if asked due to UAC control in windows). 

- Now using the left pane navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background
or you can alternatively press ctrl+F and type OEMBackground to find it.

- Now in the right pane double click on OEMBackground and set the Value data to 1 and click on OK.

- Now again open run by pressing windows key+R and type oobe and click OK.

- Now open info folder and then backgrounds folder. (If any of the folder is not present then create it with the name given here)

- Now copy the image file which you want to set as login screen background in this folder and rename it as backgroundDefault. (If file extensions are not hidden in your computer then use backgroundDefault.jpg)

- To remove the background and change it to default you just have to delete the image from the backgrounds folder.

Note:

- All the names are case sensitive so use them as they are written here.

- Only use .jpg images with a size less than 256 kb or else this method will not work. You can use paint, photoshop or any other software to change the size of the image.