vista logon screen
 

are they stored as seperate pics that can be edited?

got a prog that changes them but want to edit the standard half blue half greeny/yellow one, where can i get hold of it?

You can change it in User Accounts, Change Your Picture. Browse for more in there and select any picture.

The default ones are in:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\Default Pictures

If you'd like to copy your current picture, it is stored in the following file:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\<username>. tmp.bmp

The default user picture (the flower) is stored in the following file:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\user.bmp

i mean the wallpaper, what you see when you lock it

found where theyre stored but not the builtin ones

Download ResHacker. The images are held in %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\imageres.dll

Open imageres.dll in Reshacker.

Under `IMAGE` are the logon jpegs, each number represents a different resolution. Here are the corresponding resolutions:

5031 = 1280x1024
5032 = 1280x960
5033 = 1024x768
5034 = 1600x1200
5035 = 1440x900
5036 = 1920x1200
5037 = 1280x768
5038 = 1360x768
5039 = 1024x1280
5040 = 960x1280
5041 = 900x1440
5042 = 768x1280
5043 = 768x1360

Now select replace resource and click "open with new resource"
Now locate to the image (it must be jpeg) you want to replace the original
image with (it must be the same exact size as the original).

Then fill in the boxes:

Resource Type - IMAGE
Resource Name - 5034(or whatever your screen reolution is)
Resource Language - 1033

You can select an image and right click it to copy. Just paste it into a graphics package.

Have you done it?

You're welcome ;)

Cheers mate ;):thumb: just trying it this morning

now to work out again how to remove a white background from the pic...