Tag: logon

Capture Lock Screen in Windows

If you ever wanted to capture a screenshot of the logon screen on a physical machine, you may have used whatever means necessary to do so. Which for me, was through the use of a digital camera. The digital camera may have captured the spirit of the screenshot, but always seems to lack in quality. Wouldn’t it be great to…

Read More »

Change Background Color at Logon or CTL-ALT-DEL

In Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003, the classic Ctrl+Alt+Del logon screen is displayed on top of a solid background color. While most systems use the default color scheme, it is possible to customize the background by modifying a single registry value. I originally encountered this while managing a group of servers where one machine displayed a different…

Read More »