How to Disable Logon Screen Background in Windows 10

3 quick methods to remove logon screen background

1. Download registry file to disable Log On background image
2. Change the registry files yourself
3. Use the Settings page

Windows 10 brought many changes, and one of these changes is the login screen. If you remember, Windows 8 and 8.1 used a solid color background for the login screen, and some users are quite used to it.

If you’re one of those users, we will show you how to disable Log On screen background image in Windows 10.

If you’re used to solid color on your login screen like in Windows 8, you can easily go back to it, and here’s how to do it.

Steps to remove the logon screen background on PC

Solution 1 – Download registry file to disable Log On background image

This is pretty straightforward solution. Download this zip archive and extract it. Then just double click the Disable Logon Background Image on Windows 10.reg to add it to your registry and that’s it. There is also a .reg file available if you want to revert the changes.

Solution 2 – Change registry files yourself

This is a bit trickier solution, but if you don’t want to download any files, you’ll have to follow these steps. Don’t worry, it’s nothing too hard, but be careful because messing with Registry files can create some problems, so as long as you follow the instructions carefully you’ll be fine.

1. Open Registry Editor by typing regedit in the Search field, or by pressing Windows key + R and typing regedit.
2. Use the folder tree on the left to navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindowsSystem.
3. On the right side of the Registry Editor, click the right mouse button, select New, then 32-bit DWORD value and set its name to DisableLogonBackgroundImage. Double click it, and set its value to 00000001.
4. That’s it, now close the Registry Editor and restart your computer and you should have solid color instead of background image while logging in.
5. If for some reason you want to revert these changes, you just need to find DisableLogonBackgroundImage located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindowsSystem and set its value to 00000000 or just delete it.

• READ ALSO: Here’s a solution for Windows 10 black screen login issues

Solution 3 – Use the Settings page

In the latest Windows 10 builds you can simply disable the logon screen background from your computer settings. We’ll list the instructions below:

1. Click on “Windows Logo” key, type “Settings” and click on it
2. Open the “Personalization” section
3. In the left pane, click on Lock Screen
4. In the right pane, turn off “Show lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen”

That’s it if you have any other Windows 10-related issues you can check for the solution in our Windows 10 Fix section.

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I would like to disable the logon background picture in Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 LTSB, and I tried to do as described in https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/fe400d11-8480-4e93-8f00-c03b2ee31a3f/how-to-change-login-screen-background-image-in-windows-10-pro-1511-and-1607-?forum=win10itprosetup answer, by adding “DisableLogonBackgroundImage” under “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System” with the value “00000001”.

But seems that it does not work always. When I log in to a new user for the first time and then almost immediately log out, the default image is shown. Also, it is shown sometimes when I log out of the user which is logged in by default.

Setting it manually through GUI works (go to lock screen settings and turn off «Show lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen» for each user), but I would like to automate the process. Also not sure it it will persist sysprep /generalize.

Also it works if I turn on the «Force a specific default lock screen and logon image» policy and specify invalid path to an image, but that is sort of a hack, so I don’t want to use it.

How to disable a logon screen background image correctly?

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“DisableLogonBackgroundImage” reg key wont work anymore:

Some other workarounds:

If you find my reply helpful, please “Mark as Answer” and “Vote”

Thanks for posting your query.

I have tested and succeeded, please follow the steps:

1. Before modify the registry, we need to backup it: How to back up and restore the registry in Windows

2. Type regedit in search box and enter.

3. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System

4. Right-click on System and select New> DWORD(32-bit) Value.

5. Name it DisableLogonBackgroundImage and set the value to 1. (If you want to enable the logon background picture, set the value back to 0).

6. Close regedit and restart. Check the logon background。

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• Edited by yilia zhao Microsoft contingent staff Friday, November 16, 2018 5:58 AM

Hi Yilia, as I wrote I tried this, but the logon screen appears after a new user would log in and log out.

But seems that it is because it interferes with some other setting I use. I was not able to reproduce this issue on an image without users configured to meet our needs, I will write here when I will find the root cause.

Best regards, George

Thanks for your reply.

You can try to set the Lock screen to a pure picture:

1. Right-Click the desktop and select Personalize.

2. Select Lock screen and choose Background as Picture.

3. Download a pure picture.

4. Browse and choose it.

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Sorry for a long delay before reply, now I’m back to this issue.

Thank you for your help! In this way (right-click, Personalize. ) you can also disable logon picture, and it works fine. But I want to automate the process and also to make it work for all users. I also thought about setting a picture with pure color using a local computer group policy. But I wanted to ensure that this issue does not indicate that there is something wrong with the way we apply the policies and they don’t override each other, because we have more important and less visible policies, like «Turn off Autoplay». And I still want to be sure about this.

I managed to pinpoint a minimum setup to reproduce this issue:
1) Install a pure Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 LTSB image, without answer file. Create a User1 user during OOBE.
2) Create another user User2
3) A dd “DisableLogonBackgroundImage” under “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System” with the value “00000001”.
4) Reboot. At this step everything is fine. There is a picture on a lock screen, but nice light blue background on logon screen as expected.
5) Enable «Do not display the lock screen» policy in local computer GPO under path «Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Control Panel\Personalization».
6) Reboot
7) Log off from User1 after reboot, you will see no lock screen, but there will be dark blue background on logon screen. Same dark blue screen appears when you customize lock screen and assign broken path to the image. If you select another user, the default picture will appear. If you select User1 again, you will see the default picture. If you log in to any user and log out, you again see nice light blue background on all users. If you reboot again and log off, same behavior — dark blue background that becomes a picture after selecting another user.

How do I disable the Secure Logon background image in Windows 10?

At day 1 of the windows 10 release my Secure Logon background was a solid colour, the same colour as my accent colour. Since Windows automatically updated it has been changed to a picture.

How do I get the solid colour back?

To be clear, I want this specifically for the Secure logon screen (where it shows «Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete» to unlock), not the standard logon screen.

1 Answer 1

There is Registry edit you can do. You can enable or disable windows 10 logon background image, it replaces the image with your default (accent) color.

For completeness the two reg files are replicated here:

Disable Logon Background Image on Windows 10.reg

`Enable Logon Background Image on Windows 10.reg

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Disable logon screen background image in Windows 10 without using third party tools

Many Windows 10 users are not happy to see the default login screen background image. In Windows 10, the login screen comes with the «Windows 10 Hero» image which shows blue beams of light emanating from the Windows logo. There is no option to disable this image background in the Settings app, but it can be done with a simple Registry tweak. Here is how to do it.
Update: If you have upgraded your Windows 10 to Windows 10 Anniversary Update version 1607, please see this article instead:

To disable the logon screen background image in Windows 10 without using third party tools, you need to do the following:

Tip: You can access any desired Registry key with one click.
If you do not have such a Registry key, then just create it by right clicking the Windows key.

There you need to create a new a 32-bit DWORD value named DisableLogonBackgroundImage. Set it to 1 as shown below:

You might need to restart Windows 10 for changes to take effect.

By the way, if you are using my freeware app Winaero Tweaker, you can go to Boot and Logon -> Login Screen Image:

Use this option to avoid Registry editing.

That’s it. You are done. The login screen background image will be disabled and you will get the plain solid color that you get in Windows 8. To restore it back, you need to delete the mentioned DisableLogonBackgroundImage value and restart your PC once again.

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24 thoughts on “ Disable logon screen background image in Windows 10 without using third party tools ”

What if I want to use the custom background, is it possible?

It is not clear yet. Maybe MS will add some option with few recent updates.

aero glass for windows 10 rtm has been released but not stable yet
http://glass8.eu/win_future.html

Can’t seem to get this to work on the final public release version of Win 10 Pro.
Anyone else had success with disabling the background image?
I have tried both sign out and restart and still see background image…

Install all updates.

I just did it now with Windows 10 Home. Just went to the folder and made a new.. whatever you call it… and it worked right away when I logged out

Perfect, thanks a lot!

How to switch off this Login Screen totally?

It is not possible.

Remove your password and you won’t have to log in.

This worked on my Windows 10 Pro, dont know why Microsoft didn’t alow to set custom background for this

Thanks a lot! It really works!

I forgot to mention my version of Windows that is the Home ed.

it doesn’t work on my win10 Pro..
anyone can explain?? (btw, i disabled my windows update)

I have tried to take all the necessary steps and was successfull but when i tried to lock the screen and see if there was a picture on the logon background. The screen kept loading and switching on and off. Please advice me on what to do

Finally, I’ve been waiting for Microsoft to do something about that background, but it seems they don’t care. I really appreciate the tutorials you post, Sergey.

Thank you very much for kind words.

Now that the wallpaper can be disabled, the new question is: Is it possible to change the solid color? You could do this in Windows 8 and 8.1. Its was purple by default but you could change that using default accent color values in registry:

I really want to choose my own picture for the Windows 10 Login screen (that is, the screen where you enter your password, not the Lock Screen). Thankfully I’ve been able to use WinAero Tweaker to disable the pathetic Microsoft-light-streaming-in-from-the-windows picture, but the solid colour is boring.

Sergey, do you reckon that you will be able to add a tweak for this? Your others are fantastic.

Here you go:

definitely want to support you however I have no credit card
can I send you a Walmart Visa with $$$ on it or a money order?

Is it possible to disable the profile picture? The grey circle is unnecessary.