[andrizzle]

This is my first post here. Thanks everyone for their hard work on this one. I went through a lot of other ways, like editing the imageres.dll file, to try and change the background. For those who haven’t had any luck with it, I wrote up a little tutorial for my friend:

You will need to take ownership of the current authui.dll file which is located in “C:WindowsSystem32”. You can right click on the file and go to properties. From there, click on the Security tab. Now select the advanced option menu. Select the Owner tab, press the Edit button, and select Other users or Groups. When the Select User or Group dialogue pops up, select Advanced, press Find Now, and select your user account. Press okay and then save all of the changes you’ve made until you get back to the original Security tab in the properties of the authui.dll file. Select your user account under the first selection box, click on Edit, and give your account Full Control. Now save all of you chances to the security.

An easier and quicker way of doing this would be to open a command prompt (run as administrator), and type in the following:

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type takeown /f c:windowssystem32authui.dll
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Once you have ownership of the file, rename the file to authui.old. Once that is complete, copy the authui.dll, that was posted earlier, to that directory. Now you should be able to use LogonStudio Vista. Another option would be to use VistaMaster. You can obtain VistaMaster by going to: http://www.vista123.net/vista-visual-master

Thanks everyone for their work on this one. As a side note, JonusC, have you had any progress editing that file? I’m going to look into modifying it over the weekend.

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