Windows 10 allows you to change the lock screen background, but the login screen background always features the default Windows 10 background. Use these tweaks and you can set any image or color you want as the background.
This changes the image that appears on the sign-in screen after you leave your lock screen. On Windows 8 and 8.1, this was just a flat-color background. The trick for changing Windows 7’s login screen background no longer works the same way on Windows 10.
Use a Single Color Instead of an Image
Rather than seeing a background image whenever you type your password, you can choose to disable the login screen background and see a single, flat-color background — just as Windows 8 and 8.1 used. This requires a quick registry tweak.
Download our Disable Logon Background Image on Windows 10 registry hack. Double-click the included “Disable Logon Background Image on Windows 10.reg” file to add the tweak to your registry. We’ve also included a .reg file that will undo the change, if you like — just double-click it.
If you’d like to do it yourself, open the Registry Editor and create a DWORD value named “DisableLogonBackgroundImage” under “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System” with the value “00000001”. Delete the value or set it to “00000000” to go back to the default Windows 10 “hero image.”
After you perform the registry hack, the Windows login screen will disiplay a flat-color background behind the login prompt. Just press Windows Key + L to lock your PC and check. You don’t have to
