How To: Change Windows 7 Logon Screen Background

This guide is for those of you who are tired of or are just looking for a way to change the default login screen background.
this guide will use the following tools:

7LogoNChangeR.INC DOWNLOAD
Optional for reducing image size: Paint.NET DOWNLOAD

Step 1:
Find an image online that you want as your logon background, a place to find some nice images would be InterfaceLIFT.com.
this step can be skipped if your image is already stored on your computer.

Step 2:
Download ond extract 7LogoNChangeR.INC to somewhere on your computer if you haven’t already done so.

Step 3:
Run “7LogoNChangeR.INC V3.0.exe” inside the folder you just extracted.

Step 4:
Click “Set Background” to bring up a browser window to find your image.

Step 5:
Find your image in the open window and click “Open”. If the image you selected is a valid image that the program can use it will pop up a dialog telling you that the change was succseful. If the image size is too large it will display an error and you logon screen will not change, in this case follow the guide below to find out how to fix this.

Step 6:
Thats it, all done. You can have a look at this change by clicking the test button in the main screen of the program or by pressing “win+l” to lock the computer.

Using Paint.NET to reduce the file size of your image

Step 1:
Download and Install Paint.NET and open your desired image in it.

Step 2:
Click “File>Save As” and choose file type “JPEG” from the drop down box

Step 3:
Choose where you want to save your image, I don’t recommend saving over the original image as this will produce a very low quality version of the original image.

Step 4:
Click “save” and the image setting box will open. Drag the “quality” slider across until the “preview file size” reads an number between 235kb and 256kb nothing higher as the program will not accept images aver the size of 256kb, and nothing to low as you will lose too much image detail.

Step 5:
Done, Try loading the new image into the logon screen changer program by following the same steps as before.