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Old February 4th 10, 09:35 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default Bitmap displayed during boot

In message , Steve Swift
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
What _was_ Blueblack.bmp - the company logo you didn't like? It seems

[]
It's an IBM branded bitmap (as in Big Blue). It appeared early in the
boot process, and may well have been the default wallpaper, but since I
always chose my own desktop bitmap, it doesn't persist long, and
doesn't appear at all now. I can't explain my motive for wanting to
remove it; it just irritates me for some reason.

IBM doesn't actually lock down much at all on the systems that it ships
to us, just stuff like antivirus settings, and some firewall stuff.


Ah - I thought you had meant it was something your employer had put on,
rather than the computer supplier.

It's a pleasant environment for the technically competent. And fiddlers
like me. There's nearly always a way around the restrictions anyway, if
you try hard enough. I even like the fact that we are still mostly on
XP. At my age, I like things that don't change. I got my new PC on


Likewise, at my employer.

January 6th, to replace my previous 5-year old one, and was instantly
right at home, with all the skills/tricks that I've learned still
working (not to mention software that I'd purchased). I can now look
forward to another 5 years honing those skills. It will be interesting
to see what happens when XP goes out of support. We purchased an


Indeed!

extension to Win95 support the last time we were in this situation.

Sounds expensive.
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  #17  
Old April 14th 10, 04:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Etal
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Default Bitmap displayed during boot

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:

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


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  #18  
Old April 14th 10, 08:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Tim Meddick
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Default Bitmap displayed during boot

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"

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Etal" wrote in message
...
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:

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


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Old April 15th 10, 05:19 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Etal
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Default Bitmap displayed during boot

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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  #20  
Old April 17th 10, 10:45 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default Bitmap displayed during boot

In message , Etal
writes:
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"

On mine, that value shows as

(None)

- is that the same?

(More further down)

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"


I don't seem to have any file with blueb in the name (other than
BLUEBARH.GI_ and BLUEBARV.GI_) on my C: drive - should I have?

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)
)

I don't seem to have that value at all under
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop] - should I, or are we now
talking somewhere else?

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)



Hmm. It was 0 0 0 on here, which I presume is black. I don't remember
ever changing that though (of course, Samsung may have not gone for the
light-blue you mention).
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