Change Logon Screen to Windows Default

[NoSurprises]

the Dekart Logon product is great, nice and easy to use, however, I would like to have the Logon Screen look like to bog standard Windows Logon screen.

Any Ideas?

[dr. wagner]

You mean you want it to look like the Windows Logon screen, or NOT like the Windows Logon screen?

[Unregistered]

I would like it to look like the WIndows Logon screen

[Alex Railean]

See this registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Dekart\Logon
Create a new string value called Logo Picture, assign it the path to a custom image that has to be shown at startup (should be a BMP of the same size).

Making the screen look more Windows-like will require significant changes in the code of the program. It is not likely that we will do that, because there are other priorities at the moment (other than the cosmetic changes in the GUI).

[pcpalglobal]

What are the sizes that should be used?

Thanks
-John

[dr. wagner]

Try 415x70

[pcpalct]

See this registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Dekart\Logon
Create a new string value called Logo Picture, assign it the path to a custom image that has to be shown at startup (should be a BMP of the same size).

Okay, so we did this with the recommended size but its no go. Should the key have that space? We've done it both ways but its not working.

[Alex Railean]

Yes, the space should be there. Unless there's a typo in the path you specified, I cannot [yet] come up with an alternative explanation.

Try to create a reg-file with the following contents; note that the double backslashes should be there. But single backslashes have to be used if you create the key with regedit.



Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Dekart\Logon]
"Logo Picture"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\myScreen.bmp"


But what happens in your case? You get a blank logo, or there seem to be no visual changes?

[pcpalct]

Turns out I needed to do a second restart for it to work. Weird, but it worked. Thanks anyway