I haven’t frequented this place in a long time, mostly working on other stuffs that consume my time. I just keep this blog around for nostalgic reasons. There’s not much useful stuff here but there are some interesting tidbits, if somethings broken that you need just let me know and ill see if I have the time to fix it. No promises though.
The default logon screen for Seven is kinda… eh meh. Actually the whole new default theme is kinda lame. Luckily you can change it by abusing a registry setting for OEM suppliers. I’ve included a registry file you can import into your registry so you don’t have to enter it manually.
When you have imported the registry key, just copy an image file to C:\Windows\System32\Oobe\Info\Backgrounds and rename it to backgroundDefault.jpg (or any other extension your image file may have). There are some limitations to the image file, your best bet is to resize it your screen resolution and make sure the image size remains under 245K. After all this just log off and enjoy.
Seven logon registry file (346 bytes, 173 hits)
I was complaining to a colleague of mine about software which doesnt allow you to move their data files from the system drive. Picasa2 by Google is one of those programs. Usually when I do a reinstall or screw up my system drive with one of my great ideas I tend to lose that data and I’m getting tired of that. He works in the unix/linux world a lot and said that they use symbolics links to move dirs around, he said that it might work for windows as well. And it did. Read the rest of this page »