Change the Logon Screen Background in Windows 7

Fortunately, you don’t need to download and install any third-party software to do this.  The change just involves a small registry tweak.

Tweaking the Registry

Login to Windows, click Start and enter this:

regedit

Then backup the registry by right-clicking the Computer icon in the upper left pane and choosing Export.  If you any problems then you can restore it by importing the saved .REG file you just exported.  Make sure you save the file to a removable drive because if you have a hapless encounter with the Registry the last thing you want to do is find the backup.

After you’ve exported the Registry, navigate to this registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background

In the right pane, you should see two values:

• Default
• OEMBackground

Double-click OEMBackground, change the value to 1 and click OK.

If for some reason you don’t see that OEMBackground key, right click and mouse over to New and left click DWORD (32-bit Value) value depend upon 32-bit and 64-bit OS you have.  Name the key OEMBackground, double click it and set the value to 1.

Adding the Image

The first rule is that the image has to be less than 256KB and should match your screen resolution so that the image doesn't look stretched or squished.  You can find some decent images by doing a quick Google Images search for windows 7 logon screens gallery.

Once you have background image, Open My Computer and click through to this folder:

C:\Windows\System32\oobe

In the OOBE folder create a new folder and name it info. Then double-click that and create a new folder inside of info named backgrounds.

Open the backgrounds folder and move your background image into this folder.  The file name must be:

backgroundDefault.jpg

So make sure you rename accordingly.  After you place your image here, lock the screen by pressing the Windows Key + L.

You should immediately see your custom image background now.

If it doesn’t work…

Check these things if you’re seeing problems:

1. Are you sure the image is less than 256KBs?
2. Also you renamed the image to backgroundDefault.jpg and it lives in C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds ?

And keep in mind if you change your theme it will erase the Registry tweak we made earlier.  If you have any questions just ask me.

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Partition a Drive Without Losing Your Valuable Data

Wishes to partition your hard drives? But, partitioning a drive in windows will needed us to format the drive. We just gonna use a built in windows tool. This trick allows you to partition any drive including system drives.

Steps to follow: 

• First of all open Run dialog box ( Start > Run ). Type in "diskmgmt.msc" without the quotes in the text box. Disk Management window will pop up. It may take a few seconds to load. 
• After it’s fully loaded, go to Storage > Disk management at the left sidebar. Now you could see a list of storage devices that are currently connected to your computer. Now choose the drive that you want to partition. Right Click on it and select "Shrink Volume" option from menu. 
• The system will search for available space in your selected disk volume. A window will pop up asking you to wait while it loads. Next the Shrink dialog box will pop-up. This is where you’ll have to specify the volume for next partition. Look at the total size of available shrink space. Below it, you’ll have to enter the space to shrink.
• To make sure that you not losing any data, shrink size is not below the total size of space taken by files in that drive. You can check the used space by right clicking on the drive you are going to partition and choose "Properties" from the menu.
• After done shrinking your drive. You can see an unallocated space in your shrink drive. You’ll have to format it and specify the drive letter to access them. Right click on unallocated drive and choose "New Simple Volume" option.
• New Simple Volume Wizard Window will pop up. Click on "Next" button to continue. In next window, you’ll have to specify the size for your new volume. Set full size if you are satisfied with two partitions or you can divide it again for new partition. Next, choose any drive letter from the available list and click on "Next" button. In next window, leave everything as default but make sure it's similar to the screen below ( If you want to change the volume label, feel free to do it ).
• Click on Finish window to complete the wizard. Go to My Computer and you can see your new drive.

Hope this tutorial will help you. Enjoy.

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How to Create Nameless Folder In Windows 8/7/Vista/XP

Steps to Follow :

1. First of all Create a New Folder.
2. Right Click on the New Folder and Select Rename (or press F2).

3. Now Erase the text ‘New Folder’.

4. Next Press and Hold the ALT Key and Type 255 (or 0141) from the NUMLOCK Keypad.

5. Leave the ALT Key and you are all done.

You have successfully created a folder without name!

Note - Make Sure that You are typing the Number with your NUMLOCK Keypad without using the numbers below the function keys.

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