Automatically Log on your Windows 7 Account

For some reason you may need to give your consent before final log on to your user account, but with a little afford you can remove this facility automatically log on to your user account at start up. Let's see how can you do it. Just follow the insructions:

From Star Menu Run command type netplwiz and Click on Ok or Press Enter.

Then User Account properties window will show up. This window will show all of the users accounts. Now first select the User Account you want to automatically log on. Then as shown in the following picture Uncheck the Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer  option. 

After Unchecking the option then click on Apply Then you will be prompted to provide your user name and password, also you need to confirm it.

After providing the correct user name and password click on Ok and restart the windows. Now see what happens.

Find Out the Hidden Themes and Wallpapers in Windows 7

During Installation of Windows 7 you will be prompted to provide some of your identification marks such as your language, currency, time etc. According to your response it will choose a set themes and wallpaper for you. Windows 7 has some number of set of theme and wallpapers which are shorted according to the region. Such as for United States, the themes and wallpaper are chosen accordingly and if you choose language English (United States) then you will only see the themes and wallpaper for United States only. But the themes and wallpaper for other country still stored in your hard disk but normally you can’t see them. 

But with a very easy trick you can easily access them. Open the run command and type C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT on the text box and press enter. 

You will see windows explorer will launch and you find some sub folder under C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT which will be named as MCT-AU, MCT-CA, MCT-GB, MCT-US, and MCT-ZA according to region. AU for Australia, CA for Canada, GB for Great Britain, for the United States, and ZA for South Africa. 

Now you can use every theme and wallpapers you want. To apply them go to the selected country's theme folder and double click on it. To choose wallpaper select country named folder inside your selected country folders. Check it out, now.

How to Change Windows 7 Logon and Logoff Screen

Logon and Logoff Screen appears at the starting and during shutdown process. In brief we will see how can we change them, means logon and logoff screen. Different types of softwares available for this purpose. But you can also do it manually. 

Two main things involved in this task. One is registry modification. Another is creating the log directory. Follow the instruction carefully.

First, Registry Modification

Though, the task involved in this process is very simple but it is always recommended that before doing any types of registry modification job first backup registry because fatal errors may come if it is done wrongly.

From Run command type regedit and press enter.

From this registry Editor window go to the location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background. Here on the right side you will see a Dword registry file named OEMBackground. Double click on it and change the value from 0 to 1.

First part is finished here.

Second part, Creating the Directory
Now go to window 7 installation directory, that where you installed your window. From there go to the location Windows/System32/oobe. In this directory create a new folder and name it as Info. Under this directory create another folder named as Background. On this folder put your favorite image file that you want to set as logon and logoff screen. But your image file must be in JPEG format and size must not exceed 256kb. Also take at least 1024X768 resulation as whatever the resulation is it will be stretched  to fit to the window.

Now name the image file as backgroundDefault and restart the window and see what happen.