Remove Profile Picture from Login Screen?

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  1. Posts : 29
    Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
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    Remove Profile Picture from Login Screen?


    Is there a way for me to remove only my profile picture (but not the frame for the profile picture) from the logon screen. I've tried editting the authui.dll file but am unsure what to change. I've tried using xxxdannyxxx's authui.dll file as well but it removes both the frame and the picture.

    Help would be appreciated, thanks.
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  2. Posts : 71,975
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #2

    Hello IcedEclipse,

    If you like, you could set Windows to require users to enter both their username and password on the log on screen. This will hide all users and account pictures on the log on screen.

    Log On with User Name and Password

    Hope this helps, :)
    Shawn
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  3. Posts : 29
    Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Brink said:
    Hello IcedEclipse,

    If you like, you could set Windows to require users to enter both their username and password on the log on screen. This will hide all users and account pictures on the log on screen.

    Log On with User Name and Password

    Hope this helps, :)
    Shawn
    This is pretty good!
    I'm still looking for a slightly more ideal solution (I would like my username to be pre-displayed and I don't want to have to enter it), but this is good enough if nothing better comes along.

    Thanks again.
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  4. Posts : 71,975
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #4

    I suppose that if you don't mind having the same profile picture everywhere, another work around would be to change it to a solid color image to make it look blank.

    User Account Picture - Change
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  5. Posts : 29
    Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Brink said:
    I suppose that if you don't mind having the same profile picture everywhere, another work around would be to change it to a solid color image to make it look blank.

    User Account Picture - Change
    That might work too but I was hoping for a non-solid colored background.
    Really though, the first workaround is working nicely. Hope it's okay if I keep the thread up though.
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  6. Posts : 71,975
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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    Of course it's fine. Hopefully a better option will come along for you. :)
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  7. Posts : 53,363
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #7

    You can change just about everything with the Logon Workshop program

    Logon Workshop by Kizza1994 on DeviantArt

    Suggest you make full image backups before playing, just in case

    Backup Complete Computer - Create an Image Backup

    It's possible to make it impossible to login if you really mess up

    Here is a manual method

    windows 7 - How to remove the User picture from Login and Lock screen? - Super User

    A Guy
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  8. Posts : 29
    Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
    Thread Starter
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    A Guy said:
    You can change just about everything with the Logon Workshop program

    Logon Workshop by Kizza1994 on DeviantArt

    Suggest you make full image backups before playing, just in case

    Backup Complete Computer - Create an Image Backup

    It's possible to make it impossible to login if you really mess up

    Here is a manual method

    windows 7 - How to remove the User picture from Login and Lock screen? - Super User

    A Guy
    Hey thanks for the reply, the manual edit does work but removes both the frame and the profile picture. Is there something I can change to only remove the picture and keep the frame?

    Thanks again.
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  9. Posts : 53,363
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #9

    Ironically most wanted to remove the frame, and only managed to remove the user picture. I seem to remember some having luck using a transparent image as their user picture? Also, the default user picture "place holders" are stored in

    %PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\User Account Pictures

    You might try renaming the user.bmp (to something like user.bmp.old, or .bak) and see if that doesn't give you an empty frame. This would of course affect your start menu user picture too.

    A Guy
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  10. Posts : 29
    Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
    Thread Starter
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    A Guy said:
    Ironically most wanted to remove the frame, and only managed to remove the user picture. I seem to remember some having luck using a transparent image as their user picture? Also, the default user picture "place holders" are stored in

    %PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\User Account Pictures

    You might try renaming the user.bmp (to something like user.bmp.old, or .bak) and see if that doesn't give you an empty frame. This would of course affect your start menu user picture too.

    A Guy
    Sadly it doesn't seem to work (although I might be doing something wrong). I'm setting my picture to one of the user account pictures, taking ownership, making it a .bak file, then restarting my computer. The profile picture is still there though :/
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