How can I remove this with group policy?

[Wubbalubbadub]

Morning all,

 

Basically i am changing out login screens here at the school. We have had the front of the building re-built and i thought it would be nice to have it in fitting with that.

 

That being said I basically want to get rid of the login picture box ()

 

How can I do this using group policy? A beer for the person who can help!

 

Regards

 

Matt

[Steve21]

Without modifying files you aren't supposed to I don't think you can.

 

We just set it to always show the school logo etc.

 

Steve

[FN-GM]

The answer is you can't without breaking the licence agreement.

[X-13]

Removing Picture Frame On Startup/Login Screen - Page 2 - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

Allegedly works.

 

For the network, you'd have to edit that file and push out the edited version with Group Policy.

 

Disclaimer: Any damage to your system is entirely your fault.

 

 

The answer is you can't without breaking the licence agreement.

 

Que? Editing a DLL file to change sizes/visibility is against the license agreement?

 

 

I really need to start reading these things...

Edited November 21, 2014 by X-13

[Wubbalubbadub]

Yeah ok. I don;t think i want to get that far into it.

 

In that case whats the policy for setting a school logo in the box!?

[X-13]

Yeah ok. I don;t think i want to get that far into it.

 

In that case whats the policy for setting a school logo in the box!?

 

Computer config > Policies > Administrative Templates > System > Logon

 

"Apply default picture to all users"

 

 

And use GP to push the image out to %programdata%\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\User.bmp

 

[iIRC, that changes the non-logged in one too.]

[FN-GM]

Computer config > Policies > Administrative Templates > System > Logon

 

"Apply default picture to all users"

 

 

And use GP to push the image out to %programdata%\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\User.bmp

 

[iIRC, that changes the non-logged in one too.]

 

The image will only display if its a locked machine. Not on the login screen.

[synaesthesia]

In a nutshell you can't do it. I believe people here have had success in the past if they have set screen resolutions making a wallpaper for the logon screen with the logo in just the right place.

[Wubbalubbadub]

The image will only display if its a locked machine. Not on the login screen.

 

So how can I make it so that even when its for logon it shows a picture?

[X-13]

The image will only display if its a locked machine. Not on the login screen.

 

It's been a while since I set it up...

 

I must have resorted to graphical trickery...

[Steve21]

Only way to get it to show before logon is by showing the last logged on user. If you set the GPO to remove that info it'll remove pic too.

 

Steve

[synaesthesia]

As above, don't worry yourself about it, it's not going to happen without having the logo as a well placed part of the background.

[sonofsanta]

In a nutshell you can't do it. I believe people here have had success in the past if they have set screen resolutions making a wallpaper for the logon screen with the logo in just the right place.

 

The problem I had when I attempted that was the Ctrl-Alt-Del options displaying in the same place, and the logo behind them makes them unreadable.

 

In the end, after much trial and error and frustration, I left it with the 'orrible empty box there, because while the form is unpleasant, the functionality is intact.

[JRowley]

You can't remove it without modifying the shell to my knowledge, not something I was prepared to do. You are going to have a lot of fun with this let me tell you.

 

You can modify the background and put something behind that box as it's just a frame, though you will need to do a different background for each screen resolution that you run. This gets a bit funny because the system for the backgrounds only supports a specific set of backgrounds, so you have to use a default background for specific laptop resolutions and then specify the rest.

 

I have linked a .psd for the 1280x1024 background which shows where an image needs to go to fit the frame.

 

1280x1024.psd (OneDrive)