Windows 7 to officially support logon UI background customization

[Warboy]

  billstelling said:

here's another

http://members.cox.net/billstelling/1)back...nd1920x1200.jpg

remove the 1) from the name.

can you resize these? and a few HDTV ones off deviantart?

[JoseyWales]

sure. ill get on em in the morning(its 3am now). put together what you want and ill get on it after i get up. im going to put together a torrent with as much as i can stand to work on. just for this with the folders and all. but i wont be done with that for a few days.

[Steeley]

Maybe you guys that have done it successfully can post pictures if it's possible. It'd be good to see some inspiration.

[Warboy]

  billstelling said:

sure. ill get on em in the morning(its 3am now). put together what you want and ill get on it after i get up. im going to put together a torrent with as much as i can stand to work on. just for this with the folders and all. but i wont be done with that for a few days.

http://aerotox.deviantart.com/art/Between-...nd-Sky-91084855

http://splendidosplendente.deviantart.com/...h-v2-0-70943455

Also any from these guy

http://tiger-i.deviantart.com/gallery/

[rakeshishere]

Hacking the registry for customizing windows is not "a feature" for end users or consumers. In my opinion Logon Screen customization will be considered as feature when they add in Control Panel or include it as part of themes

[mdtaUK]

I got it working. As it is just a simple ON/OFF registry option, it should be possible to make a quick frontend that could load in images for the different resolutions, and provide a checkbox to turn it on or off right?

Also is there anyway to make a screenshot of the Ctrl-Alt-Delete screen so I can show it, or can it only be done in a virtual machine?

[Dannydeman]

They should make it a feature of their new theming systems, it makes perfect sense with the new default themes. Why have a blue vector/flower one if you choosed the city theme? I think this actually will be a feature eventually. Why wouldn't they? The only reason I can think of is the same as why they want to keep their startup sound whatever the cost. It's about remembering so people will associate it with windows. They want to keep unity on all PC's. That is why you have a startup sound, and that is why bootscreens etc. will be the same. Just a marketing trick :)

[mdtaUK]

Well I don't think it will be part of the theme system, as that is a per user setting, whereas the Logon background is a system wide setting. It may be an option for the Administrator account, and it may be built into whatever oobe tools Microsoft make for OEMs to setup their customisations.

[Dannydeman]

  martinDTanderson said:

Well I don't think it will be part of the theme system, as that is a per user setting, whereas the Logon background is a system wide setting. It may be an option for the Administrator account, and it may be built into whatever oobe tools Microsoft make for OEMs to setup their customisations.

They could also have 1 main BG, and when you click on a user, the background fades to the choosen theme from the user. Would be a nice feature, won't be that hard and complicated to make. it will cost extra startup time though.

[Treemonkeys]

  Litespeed said:

Bit of a contradiction here:

followed by:

Sounds like a manual hack to me. ;)

Regedit is provided by Microsoft to help manage the OS, just because it seems complicated doesn't mean it's a 3rd party hack tool.

[mail]

The wallapaper the Rafael used.

http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/de...ple_colors.html

Works beautifully.

[virgo89]

Its not really an option if you have to go into your registry to enable it :rolleyes:

[BajiRav]

Must brag that I called it :D

  dhan said:

I have a feeling that startup / shutdown screens might be themeable now..

[mdtaUK]

Well the feature has to have been programmed into windows for a registry to be able to enable or disable it. There is no UI way to switch this feature on or off yet, and if there isnt, it will be possible for OEMs to do it with their tools.

So it is an option, and it is intended, and it is a feature which is designed to be used, just not from a UI frontend at the moment.

[DerAusgewanderte]

  xJakex said:

Did you use a different resolution or did you use the 1280x800?

sorry, needed some sleep. see you got taken care of.

btw. this one looks really nice as login bg

also for everybody: somebody (Jim) wrote a little app to do this. Taken from the original post:

http://blog.neuronaltraining.net/?p=3635 (updated, this one is direct link to program)

i have not tried it myself yet.

Edited March 16, 2009 by starless.bible.black

[DiEMOS]

thats cool, to bad there wont be an OPTION in official release for people to chanege he backgrounds.

[Windows7even]

someone will make a program that will make it easier to do than breathing

[DiEMOS]

I hope so. Well I think most of us hope so.

[boogerjones]

Great, but that 256 kB limit is really a pain in the ass. Hope somebody finds a way around it.

[xJakex]

Yeah i can live with the wallpaper for now, i have no problem with it now. I just like to try new things out and when i can't get something to work it sometimes frustrates me.

I can see them adding it to the Control Panel :yes:

[JoseyWales]

no, it will be an oem option only. but like before, someone will build a .net program to make it easy. like the one by the spanish guy on page 6. oh, by the way it works. but he did add a scipt to chane your home page to his tech site. no its not a virus or anything. i changed it right back. it also adds a link on the desktop for the backgrounds folder. thats handy. its in spanish too. so break out the roseta stone...you drag a pick in it and it will resize it for you. you then have to add it to the backgrounds folder.

[winlonghorn]

  martinDTanderson said:

Well I don't think it will be part of the theme system, as that is a per user setting, whereas the Logon background is a system wide setting. It may be an option for the Administrator account, and it may be built into whatever oobe tools Microsoft make for OEMs to setup their customisations.

actually, considering the folder it is in, it probably already is part of the oobe. :)

  billstelling said:

no, it will be an oem option only. but like before, someone will build a .net program to make it easy. like the one by the spanish guy on page 6. oh, by the way it works. but he did add a scipt to chane your home page to his tech site. no its not a virus or anything. i changed it right back. it also adds a link on the desktop for the backgrounds folder. thats handy. its in spanish too. so break out the roseta stone...you drag a pick in it and it will resize it for you. you then have to add it to the backgrounds folder.

All I can say is keep an eye on Vistadreams.org. ;) You may be surprised.

[Lord Ba'al]

Certainly a good feature to be able to change it without 3rd party tools :cool:

I took a closer look at the original one and noticed that the white bird isn't a dove, but a humming bird: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humming_bird

Which is quite unfitting, as there are no swo white humming birds :blink:

Also, it's too bright in the lower right for my tastes.

I looked around some and found this, which I think would make for a nice, smooth logon wallpaper:

http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/de.../1809/flux.html

[FiB3R]

  billstelling said:

no, it will be an oem option only. but like before, someone will build a .net program to make it easy. like the one by the spanish guy on page 6. oh, by the way it works. but he did add a scipt to chane your home page to his tech site. no its not a virus or anything. i changed it right back. it also adds a link on the desktop for the backgrounds folder. thats handy. its in spanish too. so break out the roseta stone...you drag a pick in it and it will resize it for you. you then have to add it to the backgrounds folder.

I don't use IE, but that is not cool.

When I drag the pic onto the app, I get the unavailable cursor, so I can't drop the pic.

[DerAusgewanderte]

  Lord Ba said:

Certainly a good feature to be able to change it without 3rd party tools :cool:

I took a closer look at the original one and noticed that the white bird isn't a dove, but a humming bird: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humming_bird

Which is quite unfitting, as there are no swo white humming birds :blink:

Also, it's too bright in the lower right for my tastes.

I looked around some and found this, which I think would make for a nice, smooth logon wallpaper:

http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/de.../1809/flux.html

come on folks, it's abstract+naive painting. of course there are no white hummgbirds (unless you run it through a bleach ;) ). I was wondering from the beginning why people called it a butterfly and thought they must have a different background they are looking at.