When you start your computer, you usually hear a Windows welcome sound. This greeting music can be changed or turned off altogether.
How to remove Windows greeting
Open Control Panel and go to the “Hardware and Sound” category.
Control Panel opens category Hardware and Sound 
Default voice greeting music is disabled
In this window you need to go to the “Sounds” tab. To disable the standard Windows welcome sounds, you need to uncheck the “Play Windows startup ringtone” checkbox on this tab and click the “OK” button.
How to change Windows 7 greeting
You can change the greeting sound in Windows 7 to some non-standard greeting, for example, a greeting in verse or a voice greeting in English or Russian, and you can also make a musical greeting from your favorite music track. To do this, in the “Sound” window, on the “Sounds” tab, find the “Login to Windows” program event and click on it.
Window called Sound After this, the “Browse” button is activated. Click on it and a window will open in which you need to find the file you need.
This folder contains the standard Windows 7 welcome ringtone This file must have a .WAV extension. You can make a file with the .WAV extension into a sound file. After you find the file you need, you need to click on it and click the “Open” button, and in the “Sound” window you need to click the “OK” button. Your greeting will now be played when Windows starts.
How to change your greeting in Windows 8
The Windows 8 greeting can be changed in exactly the same way as the Windows 7 greeting is changed. The only difference is that by default in Windows 8 in the “Sound” window on the “Sounds” tab there are no program events “Login to Windows”, “Exit Windows” " and "Shut down Windows." Therefore, you must first enable the Windows Logon software event for it to appear. You can enable it in the Registry Editor. We launch the Run command by simultaneously pressing the WIN + R keys on the keyboard. The Run window opens.
Run the regedit command In this window you need to enter the command “regedit” without quotes and click the “OK” button. The Registry Editor will open.
Find the WindowsLogon branch in the Registry Editor In this registry editor, you need to follow the path HKEY_CURRENT_USER - AppEvents - EventLabels - WindowsLogon.
Find the ExcludeFromCPL parameter and change it By clicking on WindowsLogon in the right window, you need to right-click on the ExcludeFromCPL item and select “Change” from the menu that appears. A small window will open in which you need to set the value to 0 and click “OK”.
Change the value of the ExcludeFromCPL parameter to 0 After this, you can close the registry editor and the “Login to Windows” program event will appear in the “Sound” window on the “Sounds” tab. Now you can safely change your greeting.
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In this tutorial we will look at how you can change the welcome screen image. When you turn on the computer, the operating system loads, then appears uhwelcome tapWindows7 with the words "Welcome" on a blue background, this background has been the standard design since the installation of Windows 7. In general, in order to change the picture (background) of a greeting, there are two ways:
1. Change the picture using the registry.
2. Change the picture using an additional program.
I suggest you familiarize yourself with two methods for replacing a greeting picture. So, let's start with the first method.
First of all, we will need to decide on the picture that we want to set as the welcome screen. To prevent your picture from being stretched, it is necessary that the picture matches the resolution of your monitor. To use a picture as a greeting background, you need the .jpg extension.
So, in order to change the welcome picture using the registry, you need to open Windows 7 Explorer (read what Windows 7 Explorer is in), then you will need to go to this address: C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds.
It should be noted that the last two folders (info and backgrounds) may not exist, in which case we will create them ourselves.
After this, you will need to move the selected image to the backgrounds folder, after naming it backgroundDefault jpg.
Then open registry, to do this, click on Start, then go to the "Run" tab and enter the command "regedit" and click on it. You can also use the keyboard shortcut “Win + R” and type “regedit” in the search bar and click “OK”.
This will open the Registry Editor window. Now we will need to go to this address:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurentVersion
\Authentication\LogonUI\Background
After we have gone to the address, double-click on the “OEMBackground” parameter and in the value line we replace the number “0” with “1”.
In the event that you suddenly do not have this parameter, you need to create it; to do this, right-click on a free part of the window and select the “Create DWORD parameter” command.
Then assign the name “OEMBackground” to the created parameter.
The second method is to change the greeting image using the Win7LogonBackgroundChanger program.
After you have downloaded this program, you will need to unpack the archive and run the program using conductorWindows 7 .
As a result, the main program window will open, which displays the Windows 7 welcome screen in use.
Just below are the standard pictures used in Windows 7. Using the mouse, click on any picture and click on “Apply” to save. Then an additional window will open, click “Yes”. After this, the background of the welcome screen will take a different look. As you can see, such actions are carried out with pictures that are located in the Windows 7 system folder.
Next, let's look at how to use your drawings as a greeting. To do this, the pictures you have chosen will need to be moved, for example, to a folder with images. I created the “Welcome Screen” folder on “Local Disk C”. After that, open the “Win7LogonBackgroundChanger” program, click on the “Choose a folder” tab, then specify the path for the image and click “OK”.
Typically, when you turn on your computer, the standard Windows greeting music plays, but you can turn off this greeting and set a different greeting.
How to make a voice greeting
To make a voice greeting in English or Russian, you need to create a text document with the text and install it in the startup folder. First, create a text document on the desktop; to do this, move the mouse pointer to any empty space on the screen and press the right mouse button. In the context menu that appears, you must first select “Create” and then “Text Document”. After this, a text document will appear on the desktop.
Creating a text document with the extension .txt
Open this document and paste the following code there:
Dim speaks, speech
speaks=”your greeting in English”
Set speech=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
speech.Speak speaks
In this code, quotes must be entered manually from the keyboard, and the phrase “your greeting in English” must be replaced, for example, with “preevet dima”. After correction it should look like in the picture.
Write any greeting text After that, click on “File” and select “Save As”. A window will open in which you need to write any file name in the “File name” field and be sure to replace the extension with vbs. It should look like "Greetings.vbs".
Save voice greeting to computer in vbs Now save the file by clicking on the “Save” button. In order for this recording of voice greetings to start when Windows starts, you need to open the startup folder and place the created file there. To do this, launch the Run command by pressing two WIN+R keys on the keyboard at once. In the Run window, enter the command shell:Startup and click OK.
Run command The startup folder will open. You need to paste or transfer a previously created text document into this folder and after that the greeting when you turn on the computer will sound “Hello Dima”
Unusual Greetings
You can make the computer play a musical greeting or a greeting in poetry when turned on. To do this, you will need to download Adobe Audition CC6 to your computer and install it. With this program you need to either open the finished file on your computer with this program and save it in .wav format. After this you need to launch the Control Panel. In the Control Panel, go to the “Hardware and Sound” category and click on the “Sound” item.
In the Control Panel we find the sound item A window called “Sound” will open. In this window you need to go to the “Sounds” tab.
You can listen to Windows greeting sounds here On this tab, you need to find the “Login to Windows” item in the list of program events. By clicking on “Login to Windows” the “Browse” button is activated. Click on it and find the previously prepared file in .WAV format in the window that opens, select it and click the “Open” button.
For several years now, computer equipment and various devices have been reclassified from the category of luxury items into standard devices familiar to people, used on a daily basis. Technological modernization of devices has allowed consumers to customize devices to individual needs, install utilities of interest, security programs and much more.
In this article we will talk about the welcome screen on computer equipment, which is classified as a screensaver. If template background icons are modernized by simply loading an interesting picture, background, various wallpapers, then the specified element is more difficult to change, however, often the classic version irritates a person, which authorizes the need to make drastic decisions. Next, we’ll tell you how to change or disable the welcome element on computer devices running Windows. To carry out these procedures, there are several methods, each of which is effective and simple, provided you know the rules of implementation. Let's take a closer look at each of the options.
Changing the style of the personal computer startup graphics by editing the registry editor is one of the most difficult, but most effective, ways to resolve the problem that has arisen. The process involves intervention in the operating system settings, therefore, for unsure PC users, it is better to refuse to perform the procedure independently using this method, or to strictly follow the subsequent instructions.
Let's first consider how to change the Windows 7 welcome screen, since the procedure performed in subsequent software modifications has some fundamental differences. The procedure for changing the Windows 7 welcome screen is as follows:
If the ultimate goal was to remove the screensaver, then at this stage the work can be considered completed, otherwise, to install a different background, you will need to perform a few more manipulations:
All that remains is to reboot the laptop. If the actions are performed correctly, then the user will be able to enjoy the installed image during the trial download, instead of the standard background.
The versions following the seven also require intervention in the operation of the OS to remove background graphics from running the software, however, the process is slightly different. Let's look at how to set up a greeting using Windows 10 as an example:
- Similar to the previous instructions, go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE information node. To remove the greeting, you then need to select the SOFTWARE folder, with a sequential transition to the Policies section, where you check the Microsoft item, after which the consumer will be able to enter the Windows registry.
- In the conditional archiver, using the manipulator, in the free field you need to select the directive “Create a DWORD 32 parameter”, giving it the name NoLockScreen.
- All that remains is to expand the renamed parameter to detail the contents, enter the denominator one in it, confirm the action and check the result by pressing a combination of the Win and L commands.
Provided that the user wants to simultaneously delete, in addition to the welcome graphics, also existing passwords, it will be necessary to remove the blocking command. To do this, you will need to find “Login Options” in the settings of your computer device and remove the blocking elements, or disable automated login, if you want to remove only distracting screensavers, with the need to leave a PIN.
Installing a third-party application as an option to change the screensaver
The need for a procedural replacement of the graphical login background often arises not only among professionals or confident PC users, but also among beginners. For the latter category of people, the previous option is not the correct solution to the issue, since it involves performing tasks, the incorrect implementation of which could affect the functionality of the device. The question of how to change the welcome screen also implies a less complicated solution, by installing a third-party utility. In this case, there is no need to intervene in the operating system of the computer device: you can change the welcome screen of a system running on Windows 7 by specifying subjective preferences in the downloaded and installed utility.
The Logon Background Changer program is the most popular utility among conditional class applications. To use it, just download the application, and you can start working directly with it, without the need for a specific installation of the utility or making changes to the system work. The application has an interesting and at the same time concise interface, where the following options are available for implementation:
- Ability to view the picture set as the input background.
- Images available for changing the screen.
- Utility settings in which the user can specify the parameters of interest, screen design style, tone and quality indicators of pictures.
- Select a directory where you specify the electronic path to the folder from which the pictures will be used.
- Key to confirm the changes made.
- Application of full-mode format.
As wallpaper, you can set both the graphic images available to the program, and use a third-party picture or photo downloaded to a specific folder on your computer, specifying the path to it, using the options of the Choose a folder utility. After the user selects the picture he likes, all he needs to do is confirm the action and restart the laptop to check the completed operation.
By installing a conditional application, you can solve not only the question of how to change the welcome picture on Windows 7, but also replace the background execution on later versions of the OS, including 8, 8.1 and even 10, on which by default there is no audio accompaniment for turning on the computer device.
On the seven, you can also replace the background image of a specific category using applications such as Tweakslogon Changer, Logon Screen Rotator, however, these utilities do not always allow the ability to change the graphical support for loading a laptop on subsequent, modernized versions of the software.
The question of how to change the greeting sound is often solved in parallel with changing the background image that appears when the computer boots. To change the audio accompaniment of the process of turning on the device, you will also need to download a special application called Startup Sound Changer. This is a bulky utility with a narrow specialization, used to replace the computer startup sound on both Windows 7 systems and subsequent versions. The utility allows you to set any file loaded into the program as a ringtone, provided that the audio file format is WAV.
You can also change the input music using system settings. To do this, you will need to go through the “Sound” settings, to the “Default” item, where in the “Sound scheme” section, select for each of the modes, namely PC startup, shutdown and other processes, a melody from those available in the system. You can verify a ringtone for a product not from the list of standard ones in the “Sounds” line, which is located at the bottom of the window that opens: enter the downloaded file, WAV format, and confirm the command by pressing the “Apply” key. In the same window, you can completely remove the sound from the taskbar when you boot the computer by removing the checkbox next to the “Play Windows startup ringtone” item.
Disabling through the Local Category Group Policy Editor
The most frequently asked question is the dilemma of how to remove the welcome screen on Windows 10, which, by default, displays the owner’s personal data upon boot. This can be done either using the previous methods or by using the method of editing the computer’s network policy. To remove the welcome screen, you need to use the “Run” command or press the Win + R combination to go to the “Local Group Policy Editor”, where you go to the “Administrative Templates” catalog list. The window that opens will contain a registry of folders, among which you need to select “Control Panel” and go to the “Personalization” menu. In the list of commands that open, you must select the “Prohibit display of the lock screen” option, disable the task by alternately checking the box next to the “Enabled” item and confirming the directive with the “OK” button. If you correctly disable the login style on Windows 10, the next time you start the laptop, the user will immediately be shown a window for entering a password, without the presence of preliminary, distracting graphic modes.
In parallel with disabling the greeting in Windows 10, the operating system allows you to both change the graphic design of the display and add sounds to it. To do this, in the category of administrative or management templates, you will need to select the “System” section, then go to the catalog list item under the “Login” heading, where a window will open, in the list of commands in which you must select “Always use a custom login background” , confirm the command and set the Windows 10 welcome policy settings. Next, you will need to select the files on your computer device that are preferable for graphic and sound playback, and set them as those produced by the software. To check the result, just restart the PC, using this method to verify the effectiveness of the operations performed. The stipulated regulations allow you to change the greeting on both OS versions 8, 10, and Windows 7.
Summarizing
The standard computer startup screen often, over time, bores the device owner and causes a kind of irritation that affects the person’s subsequent performance. It is worth noting that such a statement is a proven, scientific method, a fact: scientists have confirmed the relationship between distracting elements on a computer screen and an unfavorable emotional and psychological state of a person.
Modern technological solutions allow you to eliminate or modify the PC startup screen, both by interfering with the PC’s operating system and by installing third-party applications, which allows a user of any category to change the annoying boot background on the monitor.
