Introduction: How to Change Your Windows 7 Default Login Wallpaper

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If you want to change the default login wallpaper of windows 7 [the blue wallpaper] to any picture you want, heres how,

Step 1: STEP 1

Open the start menu and in the search box, type:
REGEDIT
open the program that comes.
click yes on the confirmation that comes, if you added a password, type it.

Step 2: STEP 2

Right click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and select Find

Search for OEMBackground.

Step 3: STEP 3

Double click on the entry OEMBackground, and change the value from 0 to 1


Step 4: STEP 4

%windir%\system32\oobe

go to this location from windows explorer, by copying it and pasting it there

Step 5: STEP 5

create a new folder named info and open it

create a new folder inside info named backgrounds

Step 6: ADDING THE PICTURE

rename the picture you want as the login wallpaper to backgroundDefault.jpg


place it inside the backgrounds folder that you created in the last step

THE PICTURE SHOULD BE LESS THAN 245KB IN SIZE

Step 7: AND YOU'RE DONE

just restart or put your computer to sleep or just lock it and you'll see the picture

if you want to remove it simply delete the picture from the backgrounds folder that you created and the default blue login wallpaper for win7 will be back.