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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= ...