Replacing the Welcome screen on Windows

Replacing the Welcome screen on Windows:-

1.Click the Start button and select Run.
 Then type regedit in the box and click the OK button. This will start up the Registry Editor.

2. Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SOFTWARE, Microsoft,Windows NT,
CurrentVersion, and lastly Winlogon. Now you will see several different values on the
right side of the screen for many different logon properties.
 The property that we are interested in is named UIHost.

3. The UIHost property specifies the path to the Welcome screen that will be loaded
and displayed. Right-click UIHost from the list and select Modify

CHANGE WELCOME SCREEN

4. Next, just type in the full path to the logonui.exe file or whatever you named your
new Welcome screen. One thing to keep in mind: avoid storing your Welcome screens in
a directory path that has spaces in the names of the directories. I suggest you create a
folder on your hard drive called WelcomeScreens. So you will be changing the value of
UIHost to C:\WelcomeScreens\CoolNewLogonUI.exe.
5. Once you make the change, it will go into effect immediately. If you click the Windows
key L at the same time, this will lock your computer and will bring up the new
Welcome screen.
If you ever want to revert to the default Windows XP Welcome screen, just change the UIHost
property back to logonui.exe. (You may have to change the C to the correct drive letter on
which you installed Windows.)