Displaying your company logo at logon

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Although it's easy to set desktop colour or a wallpaper for each user, changing these settings that affect the desktop background before logon is not so easy. There are a number of settings that you need to change:

If you wish to use a desktop logo, you need to save it as a bitmap, GIF or JPEG and place the file in the /WINNT or /Windows directory.

To change the default desktop settings:

* Use a registry editing tool to navigate to the following key:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
* Change or add the following value:
Data Type:
REG_SZ
Value Name:
Wallpaper
Value:
set to the full path of the logo
* Change or add the following value:
Data Type:
REG_SZ
Value Name:
TileWallpaper
Value:
0 means don't tile, 1 means tile.
* Change or add the following value:
Data Type:
REG_SZ
Value Name:
WallpaperStyle
Value:
0 is normal, 2 is stretch to fill the screen
Please note, this is mutually exclusive with TileWallpaper
* Change or add the following values:
Data Type:
REG_SZ
Value Name:
WallpaperOriginX and WallpaperOriginY
Value:
Sets the location of the bitmap from the left side and top of the screen