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Logon Wallpaper - automatically change w/ every logon
My method for automatically changing the Windows 7 logon/logoff wallpaper with every logon.
Step 1: Use one of the many guides on the web to enable custom/oem logon wallpaper, such as Brink's: Log On Screen - Change
Step 2: Copy whatever JPEG images you want to use for logon/logoff wallpaper in to C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds
You do not need to rename them -- just so long as their file extension is JPG or JPEG they'll be fine.
Step 3: Copy the following into C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds\rand.vbs
*note: if you have more than 100 images, change aWallpaper(100) to a larger value, such as aWallpaper(1000).Code:'========================================= 'rand.vbs 'Random logon/logoff wallpaper generator 'Author: ltwally@gmail.com '========================================= Option Explicit Dim objFSO, objFolder, objFile, colFiles Dim min, max, result, aWallpaper(100) Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(".\") min = 1 max = 0 Set colFiles = objFolder.Files For Each objFile in colFiles If ((LCase(Right(CStr(objFile.Name), 3)) = "jpg") Or (LCase(Right(CStr(objFile.Name), 4)) = "jpeg")) Then If NOT (CStr(objFile.Name) = "backgroundDefault.jpg") Then max = max + 1 aWallpaper(max) = CStr(objFile.Name) End If End If Next Randomize result = Int((max-min+1)*Rnd+min) objFSO.CopyFile ".\" & aWallpaper(result), ".\" & "backgroundDefault.jpg", True
Step 4: Create a custom task in the Task Scheduler with the following properties.
You need to set the permissions here for an administrator account that has access to C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds
Add arguments: C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds\rand.vbs
Startup in: C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds
It's a bit more complicated than just installing a program to do it for you... but after you get it going, it zero-management; just drop whatever images you want to use in that folder.