{"id":2620,"date":"2014-05-28T14:56:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:28:16","slug":"how-to-set-a-custom-background-picture-on-your-windows-7-login-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/2014\/05\/how-to-set-a-custom-background-picture-on-your-windows-7-login-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set a custom background picture on your windows 7 login screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You need to add the following key in the registry:<\/p>\n<p>Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00<\/p>\n<p>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionAuthenticationLogonUIBackground]<br \/>\n&#8220;OEMBackground&#8221;=dword:00000001<\/p>\n<p>You can save it as a .reg key and it will add it to the registry.<\/p>\n<p>or download the txt file and use it as the registry file:  \u00a0 \u00a0<a title=\"background.reg.txt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/2014\/05\/how-to-set-a-custom-background-picture-on-your-windows-7-login-screen\/background-reg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2621\">background.reg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next step is to add the background image named:  \u00a0backgroundDefault.jpg<\/p>\n<p>to the following directory:<\/p>\n<p>C:WindowsSystem32oobeinfo\backgrounds  \u00a0(You may have to create the last 2 directories)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">That&#8217;s all folks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If this helped you, <a title=\"Buy me coffee !\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/0cg2uu\">consider buying me coffee!<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; You need to add the following key in the registry: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionAuthenticationLogonUIBackground] &#8220;OEMBackground&#8221;=dword:00000001 You can save it as a .reg key and it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","_seopt_focus_keyword":"","_seopt_seo_title":"","_seopt_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[136,135,137,89],"class_list":["post-2620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-background","tag-custom","tag-login-screen","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}