Change "Welcome" Text Message at Log On
Note
2. Take Ownership of the winlogon.exe.mui file with your user account, and set it's permissions to Allow your user account Full Control. Close Windows Explorer when finished.
3. Copy this winlogon.exe.mui file to your desktop.
4. If you have not already, download and install Resourse Hacker.
5. Right click on the Resource Hacker shortcut in Start Menu - All Programs, then click on Run as administrator. (see screenshot below)
6. If prompted by UAC then click on Yes (Windows 7) or Continue (Vista).
7. In Resource Hacker, click on File and Open. (see screenshot below)
8. In Resource Hacker, select All Files (*.*) in the Files of type drop down box, navigate to and select the copied winlogon.exe.mui file on the desktop,then click on the Open button. (see screenshot below)
9. In the left pane of Resource Hacker, expand
String Table, and 63, to 1033. (see screenshot below)
10. In the right pane of 1033, replace the Welcome text in quotes at both 1002 and 1005 locations with the text you want instead (ex: Hello) within quotes, then click on the Compile Script button. (see screenshot above and below)
11. Click on File and Save, then close Resource Hacker. (see screenshot below)
12. Copy the modified winlogon.exe.mui file on your Desktop, and Paste it into the C:\Windows\System32\en-US folder from step 1. (see screenshot below step 1)
NOTE: The en-US folder is in English Windows 7 copies. If you have a non-English Windows 7 copy, then this folder will have a different name reflecting your language instead.
13. Click on Copy and Replace. (see screenshot below)
14. Restart the computer and log in to see the changes made.
Tip
15. You can delete the winlogon.exe_original.mui that ResHacker created if you like since you can easily do OPTION TWO below to restore the default settings.
Thats it!! Hope you have done successfully !!
1. In Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Windows\System32\en-US\winlogon.exe.mui. (see screenshot below)
Note
The
en-US folder is in English Windows 7 copies. If you have a non-English
Windows 7 copy, then this folder will have a different name reflecting your
language instead.The table below are a few of the most common ones.
Folder Name Language da-DK Danish en-GB English-Great Britian en-US English-U.S. fi-FI Finnish fr-FR French de-DE German el-GR Greek it-IT Italian no-NO Norwegian es-ES Spanish sv-SE Swedish
2. Take Ownership of the winlogon.exe.mui file with your user account, and set it's permissions to Allow your user account Full Control. Close Windows Explorer when finished.
3. Copy this winlogon.exe.mui file to your desktop.
4. If you have not already, download and install Resourse Hacker.
5. Right click on the Resource Hacker shortcut in Start Menu - All Programs, then click on Run as administrator. (see screenshot below)
7. In Resource Hacker, click on File and Open. (see screenshot below)
8. In Resource Hacker, select All Files (*.*) in the Files of type drop down box, navigate to and select the copied winlogon.exe.mui file on the desktop,then click on the Open button. (see screenshot below)
10. In the right pane of 1033, replace the Welcome text in quotes at both 1002 and 1005 locations with the text you want instead (ex: Hello) within quotes, then click on the Compile Script button. (see screenshot above and below)
11. Click on File and Save, then close Resource Hacker. (see screenshot below)
12. Copy the modified winlogon.exe.mui file on your Desktop, and Paste it into the C:\Windows\System32\en-US folder from step 1. (see screenshot below step 1)
NOTE: The en-US folder is in English Windows 7 copies. If you have a non-English Windows 7 copy, then this folder will have a different name reflecting your language instead.
13. Click on Copy and Replace. (see screenshot below)
14. Restart the computer and log in to see the changes made.
Tip
If
the "Welcome" message did not change at log on after your changes from above,
then:
1) Open a elevated command prompt i.e open cmd and run as administrator
2) In the command prompt, type mcbuilder and press Enter.
3) When the command window closes, restart the computer.
1) Open a elevated command prompt i.e open cmd and run as administrator
2) In the command prompt, type mcbuilder and press Enter.
3) When the command window closes, restart the computer.
15. You can delete the winlogon.exe_original.mui that ResHacker created if you like since you can easily do OPTION TWO below to restore the default settings.
Thats it!! Hope you have done successfully !!
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