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Question

Windows 10 Login Screen Background

Apr 14, 2016 6:41AM PDT

Does anyone have information on how to change the CTRL+ALT+DEL background picture to a custom picture?

I'm talking about the picture that comes up upon boot up - not the lock screen picture.

Thank you in advance.

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W7 method may work for W10
Apr 14, 2016 6:47AM PDT
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W8 methods
Apr 14, 2016 6:48AM PDT
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And this is for Windows 10.
Apr 14, 2016 7:02AM PDT
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That's for the lock screen background
Apr 14, 2016 7:05AM PDT

From the article . . . "Windows 10 allows you to change the lock screen background, but the login screen background always features the default Windows 10 background. Use these tweaks and you can set any image or color you want as the background."

I'm looking to change the "login screen background always features the default Windows 10 background"

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Re: background
Apr 14, 2016 7:14AM PDT

The second paragraph of the link says "This changes the image that appears on the sign-in screen after you leave your lock screen. "

A few page-downs later it says

"Set a Custom Login Screen Image.
Microsoft doesn’t yet provide an official registry hack or group policy setting for changing the login screen background on Windows 10. However, enterprising Windows tweakers have discovered that the image is part of the Windows.UI.Logon.pri file."

and it continues on how to change that.