Time Required: 1 Minute, 5 Minutes, 10 Minutes, 15 Minutes
Notes: If you have chosen a classic Windows theme, this will top it off. This changes the login screen to the Windows 98-style login screen.
Warnings: This is dangerous if you do not know what you are doing. I do not take responsibility for anything that you do to your computer that harms it or any files on it in any way.
Written By: Max Feinstein
How to do it:
- Navigate to Start > Run and click on Run.
- In the input field, type "regedit" and then press enter.
- Navigate to the following key in the registry by clicking on the +'s next to the folders in the left pane (see picture below).
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Winlogon
- Right-click a blank space in the right-hand pane and go to New > DWORD.
- Name the new DWORD "LogonType".
- Double click the new DWORD.
- For the value, enter "0" and click OK.
- Note: If you want to change it back to the XP login screen, change the value of "LogonType" to 1.
- Close regedit.
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Regedit's left-hand pane.
