Sunday, October 11, 2009

Change the Logon Screen Background Color

When you change the color scheme and appearance of your desktop it does not change the background color of the logon screen to match. This tweak allows you to change that color as well.
1. Start Regedit.
2. Go to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors
3. Modify the value named 'Background' according to the color you would like in RGB (Red/Green/Blue) format. For
example, "0 0 0" for black or "255 255 255" for white, and every other color in between.
4. Restart Windows for the change to take effect.


change the Logon screen wallpaper:

When you setup a background wallpaper for your desktop, the initial logon screen wallpaper is not changed and stays as the default Windows appearance. This tweak allow you to change the default wallpaper.
1. Start Regedit.
2. Go to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
3. Modify the value of ‘Wallpaper’ on the right pane to equal the path and filename of the bitmap file you want to use as the background.
4. Restart the system for the changes to take effect.


ower the computer off after shutdown:
Enabling this setting will cause windows to automatically power down your computer once it has finished shutdown process.
1. Start Regedit.
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
3. Modify the existing value PowerDownAfterShutdown to 1 for enabling this setting.
NOTE: This feature must be supported by your system BIOS.

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