Win 2000

[meeja]

Mrs Meeja was talking computers with me (Lord knows why!) and wanted to know why my PC looked different at the log-on screen.

Win 2000 at home, and she has win 2000 at work, but the Log On screen is different (It's the company logo graphic)

I've seen this on other networks (Usually when Novell is used)

Is it possible for any user (with admin rights) to change the log on screen to something more interesting?!

[agent006]

It is possible. It involves editing the registry though. run regedit.exe and get your way through the folders to:

HKEY_USERS.defaultcontrolpaneldesktop

There should be a wallpaper value on the right. Put the filename into there.

[PetrolTed]

Cooool

[tuffer]

Supercooooool I am off to play....

[meeja]

agent006......



Let the fun commence.....

All I need to find now is the digi pic I took of Mrs Meeja last Christmas after a few too many glasses of red wine....

[meeja]

Okay.... now I've had the time to actually load the pic onto my PC, and gone into regedit, how do I actually enter the info into the "wallpaper" part (ie tell it what pic I want to use?!)

IT Numptiness strikes again....

[tuffer]

I got stuck at the same point.

[agent006]

if you double click on the wallpaper bit on the list, you should be a box up asking for calue data.

This now depends on where you saved it. best place to save or move the picure to would be your windows directory.

so put in c:windowsyourpicture.nif

best to save the picture as a bitmap BMP file for the sake of your computer's sanity.