Changing Sign on Screen

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 15 Feb 2002 1:59 am

How do you change the sign on screen in XP Professional??? You know the log in sign on screen??
Thanks in advance
Ricky

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 15 Feb 2002 2:39 am

Hi Ricky, are you referring to the logo which appears during boot-up ? If so, generally that is written into bios and "Lives" within.

TP

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 15 Feb 2002 3:40 am

Ricky, exactly what do you want to change and why? Some of those initialization screens can be changed but I don't know if it's worth it, as there could be some other notice or information that could pop up with that screen.

Michael Holland · Post by **Michael Holland** » 15 Feb 2002 4:34 am

Here is Tech TV's Windows XP Tips and Tricks. You may find the answer there.

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 15 Feb 2002 10:34 am

Thanks guys I figured it out. You have to have a program called login loader....and it was for my nieces boyfriend and it's a piece of cake......so you can close this one.
Ricky

Jeff Agnew · Post by **Jeff Agnew** » 15 Feb 2002 10:42 am

As an administrator, go the the Users control panel, then select your account (or the one you wish to change.)

There is an option to change the picture displayed during log-in. I'm guessing that's what you want to change.

If you want to change the graphic appearance of the screen, you can edit or replace the graphic used in the original file. I don't have an XP box in front of me at the moment and can't remember the file name but I can find it if you really want to know. I do this all the time, replacing the graphically hideous Windows logo with something more pleasing.

In Win 9x/ME/2000, these are the logos.sys and logow.sys files. Your replacement files must conform to the exact dimensions of the originals. Same for XP.