How to Change Welcome Screen in XP CD and your system
(Unattended XP Tips)
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Hi
windows XP uses two kinds of logon screens: welcome screen and clasic screen.
In Clasic logon,the system shows an small window box and after you enter your
password,lets you to logon to system.
In Welcom screen ,system shows agraphical page with users name ,and again
after enterring password ,lets you to logon.
Most of users are using windows defalt welcom screen.If you are tired of this
screen , iam going to tell how to change and make it as you like.
(If there were users that want to change Clasic logon too,please inform me.)
Note:Windows uses file "logonui.exe (inside system32 directory to show
wellcome screen.
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Step_1 (Making your favorite logon screen)
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A_ There are several ways to make logon screen file.you can do this yourself,
or can use a software to do it for you,and also you can download your
favorite from many locations in web.
I think "LogonStudio" is the only program that works perfectly and you can
use your favorite images and also favorite texts by it.
Any way i am not going to talk about making this file in this tutorial,and
just want to say how can you put your favorite logon screen in windows XP CD
and also how can use it in your system.
If you need to learn making this file ,pleas inform me to talk about later.
B_ I suppose you have made your logon screen file,and saved that by the name
of Mylogon.exe
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Step_2 (Using your favorite logon file in your system)
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A_ Put file you have made (Mylogon.exe) inside ...\windows\system32\ directory
B_ Open notepad and copy lines below on it,and save as Mylogon.reg
Note that you should save by extention of .REG (not .txt).when doing
this ,select "All files" in notepad.
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"UIHost"="Mylogon.exe"
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note : you can down load Mylogon.reg frome attach ment insted of making it.
C_ Now run Mylogon.reg.After that if you have done as i told,work is done
and you can see the new welcome screen after restart or pressing keys
"window + L" .
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Step_3 (Placing your favorite logon file in your XP CD)
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A_ Rename "Mylogon.exe" to "logonui.exe",and put it in c:\
B_ Down load file "modifype.exe" from attachment,and Put it inside your
system32 directory.
C_ Go to command prompt (start/cmd enter) and type :
modifype.exe c:\logonui.exe -c
press enter,if you have done every thing OK ,command will say:
No Error occurred,have a nice day
D_ Now type command below and press enter:
makecab c:\logonui.exe
by this command,the system will make file "LOGONUI>EX_" in address below:
Documents and Settings\Administrator\
of course if the user name is for example xxxx, the fill will be produced in:
Documents and Settings\xxxx\
E_ Now you can change this file (LOGONUI>EX_) by the one in the I386 directory
of your XP CD.and burn your CD...
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Thats all.you can download preview of my simple logon from attachment.
have nice times
shirin