{"id":21209,"date":"2021-04-21T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T12:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=21209"},"modified":"2021-04-21T08:44:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T12:44:02","slug":"how-to-change-the-background-picture-on-the-login-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-change-the-background-picture-on-the-login-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change the Background Picture on the Login Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">How to Change the Background Picture on the Login Screen<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/lockscreen.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 Tips\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Recently we received a question from Lin, who, after reading our article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/a-fix-for-your-blurry-login-screen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fixing the blurry picture on the login screen,<\/a> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">wanted to know how to change the background picture on the login screen. So, for Lin and everyone else who wants to know how to change the login screen background picture &#8211; this is for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">How to change the login screen background on Windows 10<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">1.) Right-click on a blank area of your desktop and click &#8220;Personalize&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">2.) In the Personalization settings dialog, click on &#8220;Lock screen&#8221; in the menu on the left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">3.) In the Lock screen dialog, under &#8220;Background&#8221; click the down arrow to expand the menu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/lockscreen2.png\" alt=\"Windows 10 Tips - Cloudeight - Lock screen background\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">4.) You&#8217;ll see you have three choices in the dropdown menu&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Spotlight<\/strong> &#8211; This choice allows Windows to change your Lock screen (and your login screen if you choose) frequently with images from Bing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Picture<\/strong> &#8211; The &#8220;Picture&#8221; choice allows you to pick any images from your computer to use as your Lock screen and your Login screen background. Just click &#8220;Browse&#8221; to find the picture you want to use as your Lock screen and login screen background.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Slideshow<\/strong> &#8211; The &#8220;Slideshow&#8221; selection allows you to choose a folder of pictures that will constantly rotate at an interval of your choice &#8211; to serve as your Lock screen and (if you choose) your login screen background.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/lockscreen0.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 tips - Change the login screen background.\" width=\"598\" height=\"518\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">5.) After you&#8217;ve made your selection, if you want to use your Lock screen selection on your login screen too, scroll down the Lock screen page and turn the switch under &#8220;Show lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen&#8221; to &#8220;On&#8221;.\u00a0 (<em>Note: We call it the login screen, and Microsoft calls it the sign-in screen &#8211; but a rose by any other name you know&#8230;<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/lockscreen1.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 tips - Change the login screen background.\" width=\"598\" height=\"518\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And now you know how to change the background picture on your login screen.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; How to Change the Background Picture on the Login Screen Recently we received a question from Lin, who, after reading our article on fixing the blurry picture on the login screen, wanted to know how to change the background picture on the login screen. So, for Lin and everyone else who wants to know how to\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-change-the-background-picture-on-the-login-screen\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948],"tags":[1844,4194,4195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21211,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21209\/revisions\/21211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}