Customize the Welcome Picture Choices
January 12, 2008
Although you can easily change your Vista logon/start menu picture, if a new picture is selected, Windows Vista will remove the last made picture from the list entirely. You are then left with the new picture and the default Windows Vista pictures.
Because you will probably prefer your own selection of pictures, you can change the list of default pictures to your own and delete the default ones you don’t want to use.
To get the list of pictures:
- 1.Open “Control Panel”
- 2.Open “User Accounts”
- 3.Open “Change Your Picture”
And you will get a list of the pictures.
These pictures are hidden away in your program data directory.
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\Default Pictures
Now simply remove those pictures that you do not want and replace them with ones that you do want.
Note: Ensure your pictures are 128×128 resolution in bitmap format. Order them alphabetically if you want them in a certain order.
To copy your current picture, you will find it stored in this file:
C:\Users\
The default user picture (the flower) is stored in this file:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\user.bmp
The result. With a customized list of pictures, the bay tux picture can be seen remaining in the list while currently using a default Windows Vista picture.
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