Vista User Account Picture - Empty Frame in Domain Logon Screen
I'm running identical Vista Enterprise computers in a lab environment on a Windows Domain, and am having an issue with the user account picture. Namely, on the user logon screen, just above the fields for the username and password, there's a giant empty frame where the user account picture should be.
I've already replaced the user.bmp and guest.bmp, so that our company logo will show up for users in the start menu after they've logged in, and will show up in the logon window for their user name if they've locked their session, but I'm unable to get the picture to show up on the original logon screen before the user logs in.
Some group policies we have include:
Interactive logon: Do not display last user name Enabled Interactive logon: Do not require CTRL+ALT+DEL Enabled Always use classic logon Enabled So far I haven't found any good info that refers to this problem. I've only seen two posts on these forums that come close to the problem I'm having, but neither touch on it directly and provide a solution. They are:
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2233417&SiteID=17
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=964037&SiteID=17
Does anyone know if it's even possible to force a user account picture to be displayed on the Vista logon screen when on a domain? Thanks in advance.
Trelf
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Hi Trelf
If you find the solution to this would you be able to let me know what is it please? I've experienced the same issue today and haven't come up with anything as yet. My email address is simonwindelerlea@hotmail.com
Thanks,
Simon
- Judging by the date on this post, I'm gussing the answer is still in limbo. I'm having the same probem, only I'm using Windows 7 RC.
- Is Microsoft EVER going to address this? Such a simple element, yet one that really stands out. Of all the customization and hard work put in to making our systems look professional and homogenous, and yet we cannot display the logo of our institution at the logon window. Instead, a giant, ugly, blank tile represents Microsoft and Us in this case. Please, Please, Please Microsoft-- let us place an image here when the machines are attached to our domain!
I've never been able to find a solution to this either and it also affects Windows 7.
It just makes it look like something's missing having a huge empty box.
Has no-one found a solution yet?
Also if you apply a default tile to all users then the one in the start menu is also empty for all users as well as the one on the logon screen remaining empty (unless this has been fixed since last time I tried it)
Robin Wilson- I've been searching too, from what I can see there isn't the ability. Of course...I wouldn't mind someone proving me wrong.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistadesktopui/thread/8e0ed38b-2769-4c04-9b3c-ca976d7bc096 - Have you tried saving it in a 24-bitmap
- Proposed As Answer bysixfourgiant Friday, September 25, 2009 10:53 PM
- Hello sixfourgiant.
As far as I can tell this is not something that is possible to do and I can kind of see the logic of having an empty frame as no-one is logged in.
You can however change the background which I think is what you may be referring to as I believe these need to be 24bit bitmaps: http://www.withinwindows.com/2009/03/15/windows-7-to-officially-support-logon-ui-background-customization/
Robin
Robin Wilson I dont know if this will work in Windows Vista as I have not attempted it yet, but it does work in both 7 x64 and x86.
In both Windows Vista and Windows 7 when you enable the “don’t show last username” policy in group policy or in the registry, the user account frame will be shown as an empty frame instead of with the users account picture. The following steps will enable a custom image or logo to be inserted into the frame for all users.Warning: Changing system files or their settings can have an unwanted effect on the computer and can even make them unbootable. After this file is changed no user will be able to choose an individual picture.
Do the following at your own risk.In order to add a logo to the frame you must first take ownership of C:\Windows\System32\authui.dll. You can do this by doing the following using explorer, navigate to the System32 folder, right click on authui.dll, click on properties, click on the security tab, click on advanced, click on the Owner tab, click on the Administrators group, then click apply. Click on the permissions tab, click on administrators, click on edit, tick the allow box for the full control permission, click OK on any remaining dialog boxes.
Using the resource editor open the authui.dll file, browse to bitmap, then to 12223. Then you want to export/save the file as a bmp file.
Open both your desired image and the bmp file in the bmp editor. Resize your desired image to roughly 120x120. Copy the image to the picture frame and position as desired. Once everything is the way you want, save the file.
In the resource editor again, you want to replace the 12223 bitmap with the custom image created. After this is done, save authui.dll and you should be able to see the effects immediately, if not reboot.
- Proposed As Answer byKJCJK Friday, November 20, 2009 6:29 AM
- Everything looks like it'd work in Vista too, though I can't seem to find a editor that will extract the BMP. ResEdit sees 12223, but I can't get a good export and Resource Editor doesn't show any content when authui.dll is opened.
KJCJK - What resource editor are you using? - Do you use x64 or x86? if its x64 then you have to find a resource editor specifically designed for x64. Otherwise try to copy authui.dll to the desktop and open it there. I had problems opening it in the System32 directory until I copied it. It went fine after that with Resource Editor for me.
