{"id":7289,"date":"2016-07-21T09:28:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T09:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=7289"},"modified":"2016-07-21T09:32:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T09:32:04","slug":"change-background-image-for-windows-10-login-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/change-background-image-for-windows-10-login-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Background Image for Windows 10 Login Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time you start Windows 10, you&#8217;ll be greeted with a lock screen. Once you click or swipe away the lock screen, you&#8217;ll get to the login screen where you have to select a user and enter password before accessing the desktop. It&#8217;s very easy to change the lock screen background, but Microsoft doesn&#8217;t provide an official setting to change the login screen background with a custom image in Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/logon-background-image.jpg\" alt=\"logon-background-image\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7294\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To change the background image for Windows 10 login screen, we need to use some sort of third-party script or utility. The best tool we found is Windows 10 Login Screen Background Changer, which is an open source freeware you can download via GitHub.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Change Background Image for Windows 10 Login Screen?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download the latest version of Windows 10 Login Screen Background Changer from <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/PFCKrutonium\/Windows-10-Login-Background-Changer\/releases\" target=\"_blank\">GitHub website<\/a>. The downloaded file is a self-extracting zip archive. Extract the contents to an easily accessible location, such as the desktop.<\/li>\n<li>Locate the <strong>GUI<\/strong> folder from the extracted archive and double-click on <strong>W10 Logon BG Changer.exe<\/strong> file to launch the tool. Click <strong>Yes<\/strong> button when you see the ELUA prompt to use the tool at your own risk.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/logon-changer-EULA.jpg\" alt=\"logon-changer-EULA\" width=\"579\" height=\"109\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7291\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Under <strong>Edit Background<\/strong>, click on the image icon to browse and select a custom picture that you want to set as login screen background.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/logon-background-changer.jpg\" alt=\"logon-background-changer\" width=\"600\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7292\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>After choosing your desired picture, click <strong>Apply Changes<\/strong> button. (If you want to restore the login screen background to the default image, just click <strong>Restore Defaults<\/strong>.)\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/apply-changes.jpg\" alt=\"apply-changes\" width=\"600\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7293\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Log out and log in, or press the Windows key + L, you&#8217;ll see that your custom image is displayed as your Windows 10 login screen background.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time you start Windows 10, you&#8217;ll be greeted with a lock screen. Once you click or swipe away the lock screen, you&#8217;ll get to the login screen where you have to select a user and enter password before accessing the desktop. It&#8217;s very easy to change the lock screen background, but Microsoft doesn&#8217;t provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[2832,2831,2833],"class_list":["post-7289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-change-logon-background-in-windows-10","tag-change-windows-10-login-background","tag-windows-10-login-background-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7289"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7298,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289\/revisions\/7298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}