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Customize Windows 8 User Account picture/Lock Screen when unactivated

I installed Windows 8 early to setup everything up so when it comes out in October I can just buy it and activate it. Then I got tired of not being able to customize anything so I found where Windows stores various images and here they are. Note: After each one you may have to restart explorer.exe (cmd> tskill explorer) Tools: Take Ownership registry edit- media.askvg.com/downloads/2007/10/Add-Take-Ownership-Option.zip User Account Picture: -Go to C: Drive -In the ribbon go to "View" Tab and choose "Options"> In the new windows go to "View"> choose to Show Hidden files -Back in the explorer go to "ProgramData" since it is not hidden anymore -Then Microsoft> then User Account Pictures -The images you want to change are user.bmp, user.png, user-40.png, user-200.png (You may not see the .png or .bmp) Now in Photoshop (or any other image editing software) make 4 images of the image you want using these settings: user.bmp= ...

Customize Windows 8 User Account picture/Lock Screen when unactivated

I installed Windows 8 early to setup everything up so when it comes out in October I can just buy it and activate it. Then I got tired of not being able to customize anything so I found where Windows stores various images and here they are. Note: After each one you may have to restart explorer.exe (cmd> tskill explorer) Tools: Take Ownership registry edit- media.askvg.com/downloads/2007/10/Add-Take-Ownership-Option.zip User Account Picture: -Go to C: Drive -In the ribbon go to "View" Tab and choose "Options"> In the new windows go to "View"> choose to Show Hidden files -Back in the explorer go to "ProgramData" since it is not hidden anymore -Then Microsoft> then User Account Pictures -The images you want to change are user.bmp, user.png, user-40.png, user-200.png (You may not see the .png or .bmp) Now in Photoshop (or any other image editing software) make 4 images of the image you want using these settings: user.bmp= ...

The terrifying see-through path stuck to a Chinese cliff-face 4,000ft above a rocky ravine

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Don't look down!  By STEPHANIE DARRALL, November 2011 I t is certainly not a path for the faint-hearted. On one side a sheer rock face, on the other a 4,000ft drop - and all to separate the brave traveller from a deadly plunge is a 3ft-wide, 2.5in thick walkway. And if that is not enough to bring terror into the pit of your stomach, the path running alongside a Chinese mountainside is made out of glass, allowing a crystal-clear view of where one false step can take you. So it was perhaps understandable that this woman tackled the walkway by sticking as close to the cliff as possible, feeling her way along with tentative steps. Don't look down: A brave tourist walks along the glass path that was built of the side of a cliff 4,700ft above sea level on Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie, China Dazzling: A glass path suspended on a cliff face has been built on the side of the Tianmen Mountain in China The skywalk  is situated 4,700ft abov...