Alliance Technologies

Vince Meek, one of our professional Network Engineers here at Alliance Technologies, offers some friendly tech tips to help your IT Department and general users alike.

Company background on Login Screen Windows XP

This tip tells you how to set all computers in your office to have the same background when nobody is logged in. This is a great way to show off to visitors or clients.

1. Create a Network Share

Create a network share on the server and give read permissions to every computer. Place the desired background in the root or in any subfolder, but mind the length of the directory path to the file.

2. Set Company Logo script

Create a bat file like this, with your file name and directory:

if not exist %windir%\company.bmp copy \\server\shared$\wallpaper\company.bmp %windir%

reg add “hku\.default\control panel\desktop” /v wallpaper /d company.bmp /f

Note: this will only copy the file if it is not yet there.

3. Apply GPO

Create a GPO to hold abovementioned script as startup for computers. Link the GPO to an OU that holds the necessary computer objects.It can also be run manually by a passing admin or during setup of the workstation or your favorite deployment tools\programs.

On next startup the computers should show the company logo when nobody is logged in.