Quick overview:
After you have booted up your computer, a login window appears in which you can log in with your user name and password. The background is usually blue, but this is very monotonous in the long run. Windows Tweaks has now found out how you can use your own image:
1. Click on Start > Run and type regedit in the command line that appears. A program will appear where you can double-click to navigate through the various keys of the Windows registry database.
2. Go to the key HKEY_USERS\ DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop and right-click on a free area in the right pane. Then click on New and create a Reg_Sz value using the String option, which you simply name Wallpaper. However, if this value was already there or not for both, the following applies: Double-click on it!
3. Now enter the hard disk path to your favorite background image in the line that appears. If your image startrek.bmp is located in the directory C:\My Pictures\Science Fiction, you must enter C:\My Pictures\Science Fiction\startrek.bmp. Click on OK and the new image is applied.
It is important to note that only BMP images work here. Image formats such as JPG or PNG are completely ruled out. However, it is a simple matter to convert these images to BMP, even if you do not have a professional editing program such as PhotoImpact:
1. Right-click on the image and select Open with.. and select Internet Explorer
2. The image now appears in full size - now click on File/Save as and under File type select the menu item Bitmap.
You now have to adjust the path of Wallpaper as described above and your new bitmap is already adopted. From now on, it will greet you every time Windows starts up.
NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.
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