Customising the Windows Logon Screen

A Nice touch for Windows 7 Deployments is to customise the logon screen with your corporate look and feel. This can be achived with the following process.

LockScreen Background
Add the registry key OEMBackground (REG_DWORD) value 1
to the path
HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\authentication\loginui\background

Create a JPEG and name it backgrounddefault.jpg and place it in the folder

C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\Backgrounds
 
The file should not be larger the 256KB , and will be stretched to fit users screen.

User Icon
The default user icon is a flower. To change this replace the following file with a design of your own choice.

C:\programdata\microsoft\User Account Pictures\user.bmp

Remove Windows Branding 
To go a stage further and remove the Windows 2008 or Windows 7 Logo you can hack the branding DLL that displays this image.

To perform this take ownership and give admins permission to the file

C:\Windows\Branding\Basebrd\basebrd.dll

Then edit this DLL with a tool like Resource Hacker , and remove the bitmaps for the windows logos.