Tim Meddick wrote:

Very interesting.

However, I would again stress that in order for your
alternative background colour to be displayed, the value for
"Wallpaper" must be set to either "" or "none" .

i.e. :

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper"="none"


Yes, where i specify a wallpaper for the login-desktop i have it
fill the whole desktop, so whatever color i may have the
background set to is hard to see. :-)

When composing my previous followup, i suddenly realized the
light-blue background you talked about that one sees when using a
Welcome Screen was different from what i see, but i posted it
anyway just in case someone logging in like me sees it and want
to experiment.


"Etal" wrote:

Tim Meddick wrote:

The picture displayed is merely the one specified by the
registry value for the default wallpaper :

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper"="C:\WINDOWS\blueback.bmp"

Simply locate this value in the registry using
[regedit.exe] and change it to what you want.

The original value in XP for this is the word "none" which
makes Windows display just the light-blue background to
the welcome screen with no writing.

( I don't use 'Welcome Screen' ("LogonType"=dword:00000000)
)

When i don't specify a wallpaper picture as background at
the logon window, i sometimes get tired of having the
background light-blue and after backing up the key, i change
the value of:

[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon]
"Background"="64 32 128" ; (Purple background) ;
"Background"="37 133 39" (Green background)



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