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DADDY BOB'S COMPUTER Q & A
May 18,
2008
Q.
How can I change the picture/graphic that is
shown in the System Properties dialog?
A.
I suspect the picture you are referring to
is the one shown below. This is how it looks
in XP. Right click My Computer and choose
Properties, then the General tab. The
Windows + Pause combination keypress will also work to
open this dialog.
This
picture is saved in the C:\Windows\System32
folder with the name "oemlogo.bmp". To
change it to a picture or logo of your
choice, create a bmp file that is 120 X 120
pixels in size with a color depth of 16 bits
or higher, name it "oemlogo.bmp", and replace
the one in the system32 folder with it. You
may want to rename the current file in case
you want to re-use it later. Renaming it to
something like oemlogo.old will suffice.
To change
the information displayed when the Support
Information button is clicked, find the file
"oeminfo.ini" located in the same system32
folder, and open it in Notepad and modify
it. It looks like this.
In Vista
the picture and information looks like this.
It can be viewer the same way as in XP
above. Using the Windows + Pause combination
keypress is easiest.
In Vista
this picture and text can only be modified
by editing the registry. The location of the
picture to be used, and the text to display
is located in the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\oeminformation
key. To make this easier and safer to do, I have written a
little program that allows you to make these
changes without directly editing the
registry. It can be downloaded in the
download section of this site, and is called
"OemLogoChange.exe".
To use
it, create a 120 X 120 pixel bmp file
with a color depth of 16 bits or higher, of
your picture or logo, name it "mylogo.bmp" and place
it in the same folder as this little
program. Then run the program. This "mylogo.bmp"
file will be installed in your Pictures
folder, where it will be used to display in
the dialog as mine does in the above
example.
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