The logon screen is what I was working on. It does work now. I had misspelled the folder name "\background" where the custom background screens are located. Thanks again for your help, it got me to quit being so frustrated and actually look a little harder for what I may have done wrong to...
update: it works! Well I guess you are not the "resident eejit" after all and as far as your ending quote on your posts goes...Iam that talented fool of which you speak! I know I have tried to get this to work mainly late at night but that is no excuse for incorrectly typing the...
I disabled the UAC and still no go. The files are all under 256kb. Maybe you can tell me where to get one you know works and I can try that. My oldest son was over today and he said custom logon backgrounds work fine for him on his PC with Windows 7 but he uses a program to accomplish it. I...
First post anywhere; any and all help appreciated. I have been trying and failing to get the custom logon screen background to work in Windows 7 Home Premium. I don't want to use software to accomplish this if I don't have to. I have followed the few simple steps described regarding...