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Change Login Wallpaper Background Terminal Services Remote Desktop

Submitted by Tom on February 5, 2007 - 10:23am.

Sorry for the cryptic title, but I wanted to make it easy to find for those that are looking for the way to change the pre-login wallpaper on their computer, especially servers.  I had a server that had an annoying Dell logo that took forever to paint every time I logged in remotely, so I wanted to ditch it.

Use registry editor (regedit) and go to key HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop

Look for the string value Wallpaper under the Desktop key.

You can change the value to be any bitmap file, but in my case, I just deleted it.

If you do want to just change the wallpaper, then you will also want to find the key WallpaperStyle - you may have to create it.  Set the string to 0 (zero) to display the wallpaper bitmap centered; a value of 1 will tile it, and a value of 2 will stretch it to the screen resolution.

Hope this helps.  Don't forget to backup your registry before doing any of this!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 20, 2008 - 6:07am.

Great product, hope you can realease one MacOS version, just like microsoft's remote desktop connection client for mac, I think that will be cool, Thanks.

Submitted by maktan (not verified) on January 31, 2008 - 9:55pm.

It is fun, thanks for this tips, but I want to automatically change everytime, as one software walyk wallpaper changer, I always use it, I like this function. thanks.

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