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How To
Change Windows Start Up Screen
Always seeing the same old blue screen each time you login to Windows
XP can get quite boring for you with passing time. Probably the best
way to get rid of this blue screen is to use the direct login feature
and not see the welcome screen at all but for multi user computers
the welcome screen acts as a login portal and you can not disable
it whatsoever. However there is a simple trick to change the welcome
screen .
Follow this method to change windows
start up screen:
Just make sure that you have the “Use welcome screen”
option activated in Control Panel –>
Users Accounts –> Logon and Logoff Options before
trying to apply this trick.
Basically there are two ways to change your login screen. one is to
either replace your default login screen with your new one and the
other method is to play with the registry such that it recognizes
the new login screen as the default one ..
The following steps will guide you how to over write your existing
login screen with your new one.
Here are the steps
1. Make a backup copy of C:\windows\system32\logonui.exe
2. Rename your new login screen to logonui.exe
3. Overwrite the existing login screen file with your new login screen
and thats it you are done.
Second method that will help Windows identify your new login screen
as the default one. The good thing about this trick is this that you
don’t have to delete or replace your original login screen file.
Here it goes.
1. Copy your custom login screen file under another name, let’s
say logonuiA.exe, to C:\Windows\system3\
2. Open Start menu –> Run –> and type Regedit
3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE –> SOFTWARE –>
Microsoft –> Windows NT –> CurrentVersion –>
Winlogon and change the value for UIHost to logonuiA.exe.
How to RESTORE your Old Login Screen:
If you ever feel like restoring your original login screen then all
you have to do is use the backup copy of logonui.exe and paste it
in C:\windows\system32\ and select over write
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