Alienware Login Screen for those who lost it

*Editted with all-in-one pack for your enjoyment!

I know there is a bunch of post regarding the login screen and how to get it back. However, the forum provides only red colour background which for my pure blue laptop, i decided to change it to blue. Anyways I've put a couple of colours below for you guys to test it out.

Instruction to install for those who are new (Credit goes to Alienewbie):

1) Save the image to your desktop.
2) Place the image to C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds

*Create a new folder called info and backgrounds if there isn't one*

3) Next, open regedit. Look for value named OEMBackground in the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background
4)Change the value from default 0 to 1. If you cannot find the above registry, you can download it from here. Laptop Forums and Notebook Computer Discussion

And your login screen should be changed instantly without the need of restarting.

To check if it is working, press CTRL+ALT+DEL to see the new login screen.

Here are the colours:

Red (Default):


Blue:


Green:


Yellow:


White:


And for those who can't decide on the colours, here is all-in-one pack for you:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ch1xtt

Lastly, credits to those I didn't mention that is related to these changes, and enjoy.

 

Looks awesome great job.+ rep

 

nice,

I atm anyways like the blue one.

PS short version of instructions is to just rename the colour file you want and then paste it to

C:\WINDOWS\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds

and overwrite whats there unless of course you installed from win 7 CD then follow the regedit instructions from Hel20eS.

 

Thanks dude! I've been looking for a blue one/ was too lazy to photoshop +rep.

 

This is fantastic can have the login in screen that is so awesome to begin with

 

Wow thanks these are awsome

 

Thanks. +Rep.

 

wooow awesome the blue owns

 

glad you guys like it

 

Excellent job! Thanks for sharing. I have added a blurb on this to the main official wallpaper thread which is linked in the userbar sticky -

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...ack-original-wallpapers-only-nothing-new.html

 

That blue looks more purple to me, otherwise very nice. Been using my own blue one for awhile since I'm using the blue backgrounds that came in the Breed theme.

 

Yup, it seems kind of purple-ish. Haha, if anyone wants other colour feel free to post comments, i'll see what i can do.

 

um I've followed these instructions and yet still the blah windows login screen????

 

try this, create a new folder inside the folder info called BACKGROUNDS and place the image in there.

 

thanks for the heads up, yeah i miss the backgrounds folder. Done editting the first post.

 

Are you saving these with any sort of special options? I'm trying to save a custom color version by hue-shifting the ones you posted, but every time I do, it goes to the default windows logon background (it doesn't like my jpg's). I've tried baseline / progressive interlaced, and haven't touched the resolution or anything else, just the color. Suggestions?

 

NM... fixed my own problem, I guess there's a size limit of ~200k I just lowered the compression quality and it worked. Thanks!

 

This isnt working for me. The value was not set to 0 in the registry. It said no value.

I changed it to 1 anyway and it isnt working. I have toggled between 0 and 1 and it still doesnt work. Rebooting doesnt work. What am I missing?? Im on a clean install on Win 7 Ultimate

 

try this method:

How To Change Windows 7 Logon Screen Easily [Without Using Hacks & Tools]

 

Hi, only the blue screen works for me here. Other colors don't, and I think it's due to the file size exceeding 265kb (on disk)? Would you mind post the right size (200-265kb on disk) for those colors without losing much of the quality, Op?
Thank you in advance.

 

Nice work. How about white?

 

THanks for this!

 

great's thanks finally get the original screen back

 

i'll work on the size of the picture. The red is fixed by the way.

 

editted for red. This is the original default which is red, and i have resize it to 1920x1080 so the image doesn't look a bit "squeshed" plus the name without the need of renaming it, just put into the folder and you're fine. For other colours i'll be working on it. If anybody have a suggestions on how to reduce the file size, it would be a great help. For now, this is the only one working.

http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/9410/backgrounddefault.jpg

 

here is the blue one:

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/9410/backgrounddefault.jpg

 

Here's white for you. Still i find it too plain haha. Well may be you might like it.

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/9410/backgrounddefault.jpg

green and yellow is still in progress.

 

yellow and green at last ! 1 hour of research pays off.

Yellow:
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/9410/backgrounddefault.jpg

Green:
http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/9410/backgrounddefault.jpg

 

Thanks for the white, looks awesome. Not "plain" at all.

 

Those are all great. Thanks again, Hel20eS. Inap's going to love that yellow one. Think I'm going from blue to white for the moment.

 

The yellow one is awesome, thanks again, +rep
hmmm do you have a yellow to read fade, heheheheh

 

May be i should leave that to photoshop master haha. I use ACD See to change Hue of these wallpapers actually.

 

Whites great because no matter the color scheme I got going on with the lights, white matches.

 

haha, may be my taste is bad afterall. Glad you like it

 

Thanks, they look great.

 

That and the aliens I like most in fiction are the emotionless, evil ones who wouldn't bother with things like colour or asthetics in general.

 

A slightly different version; since the monitor has the word Alienware right below where it is in the pics anyway, I removed it:

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/9410/backgrounddefault.jpg

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/6026/backgrounddefault4.jpg

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/5510/backgrounddefault2.jpg

 

orange is up as a request from vikingrinn. Check out the first post

 

Thanks a ton! this thread was a lifesaver!

 

Just finally checked into this thread, that blue one is definitely replacing the red. Thank you very much!

 

I cant seem to download them. It says domain blocked. Any other place uploaded? Megaupload or some other site? Thanks.

 

Had you check this topic:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...ook-feel-after-clean-install-windows-7-a.html

And, also, had you check this other one for driver installation order: http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...er-install-order-guide-alienware-systems.html

 

Anyone know how to make the user picture bigger on the login screen?

 

Any way you would be willing to mod it for a lighter blue more like the one in the eyes of your sig alien?

Thanks for all the current colors!

 

Hey, you can try your own color combination!

Try this software: http://download3.xnview.com/XnView-win-full.zip
And go over Image --> Adjust --> Matrix... And change the Matrix



Also, have in mind this: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/5382-log-screen-change.html

 

thanks but when i tried that it came out fuzzy and distorted :-(

OP obviously has skills with the original file to make different itterations

 

wow, didn't know people still looking at my thread

Anyways, i actually didn't do any special or complicated techniques at all in modifying these wallpapers. The program i use is ACD see, a simple photo viewer and editor software, and modify by changing the Hue of the picture. Way it works is very similar to the program that pepemosca mention.

I tried to make it lighter blu-ish colour, but it turns out quite low quality.

http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/9410/backgrounddefault.jpg

That's the best i can get do

 

Easiest and best way to change login screen is LogonStudio.

Here is link:

LogonStudio - Reviews and free LogonStudio downloads at CNET Download.com

 

ive tryed this 2 or 3 times and cant get it to work anyone else having this problem or is it just me??

 

are you using my wallpaper when change the screen? If you use yours, make sure that it is 150kb or below in file size.

download the .reg file that i've attached and place it somewhere so you don't have to go through the registries again if you format or did change something.

Lastly just double check on the file location
C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds

you place the wallpaper in there, and it must be named backgrounddefault.jpg