The Tools
• - decompiler/recompiler. Great Tool is to use and Free
• Graphics image Editor - Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop - I will be using Photoshop for this guide.
• XPLogMod <http://www.subseven.com/statistics/down ... LogMod.exe>
• XP LogMod is FREE & provides fast and easy management changing of multiple LogonUI screens to help your computer come to life! .. very handy and saves a lot of time ... you can visit their homepage <http://www.sub-seven.com/logmod>
Lets get started -
• Make a Directory for your Project
• Fire up photoshop.
Make a canvas size the same as your PC screen resolution - eg. 1152 x 864.
• Grab a piece of paper and approx mark where you will have the buttons and logon icons.
• Make your background, totally how you want it.
• Save your image as the standard photoshop file = .psd into your Login Directory you made.
• ResHacking time.
• Go to c:windows/system32/logonui.exe and right click on it COPY.
• Paste it into the Login Directory you made with the background.
• Start Resource hacker up - Use the menu - File > Open and select the copy of logonui.exe .
• Ok now its open you will see all kinds of wonderful things
• A directory tree in the left pane, and a blank one to the right. The directory tree should contain the directories UIFILE, Bitmap, String Table, and Version Info.
• Click on the bitmap Directory - you will see folders, numbered on-and-off from 100 though 127. All these contain images related to the login screen.
• Click on the folder labeled 112; right click on the image and select “Save Resource”. This will prompt you to save the BMP image…save it as “112.bmp” in your logon directory. 112 = This is the image that’s displayed in the background when you click a user’s icon and are prompted to enter their password.
• Have a look at it.
• Open 112.bmp with Photoshop and edit it to how you want it to look. Save as 112.bmp
• Switch back into ResHack and repeat this process for any other images you wish to modify, using the chart above – this way you can change icons and things.
Save each image as the name of the directory it cam from and all must be .bmp file extension.
Ok once your all done .. lets move on
Switch back into ResHack and repeat this process for any other images you wish to modify, using the chart above – this way you can change icons and such.
Res Hacking
• Open ResHacker & open the folder of logonui.exe called “UIFILE”. Open the folder called “1000”, and then click on the file called “1033”.
• It looks blank at first, but if you scroll down about 1/2 of the way, you’ll start to see the code – the CODE you see is what powers your logon.
• The style tags you see represents an object in the design, what color it is, and where it is placed.
• At the beginning of each tag, where the code reads “resid=”, whatever follows the “=” sign is the object being defined. The first object, “framess”, is the main background – if you read further into its style tag, you can see where it specifies the image to be read: 112 follows the rcbmp command. After the background, toppanelss and bottompanelss represent the two borders at the top and bottom of the screen in each WinXP logon. Any style tag that includes a line containing “rgb(X,X,X)” is a color value that you can define. If your logon uses the colors yellow and black, for instance, you may want to change the RGB color values for styles to the RGB color equivalent of yellow. The code would then read “rgb(255,216,0)”. Make sure not put spaces after the commas that separate the numbers.
• Use Adobe photoshop pallette to work out the colors or use this chart <http://www.hypersolutions.org/pages/rgbhex.html>online .
• Password boxes ( last two paragraphs) - Until you become competent and know about X and Y axis leave these alone and concentrate on the images.
• The contents of folders 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 all contain the messages found around XP logons – from welcome messages to those displayed for password errors.
• Put together
• Youve made it this far, time to put all the hard work together. We do this by putting the graphics we created into the Login.exe.
• Choose Action > Replace Bitmap from the toolbar. When the window pops up, click through the list to the right (make sure you’ve got the right one in the preview pane) and then select what you want to replace it with by clicking “open file with new bitmap”.
• For example Put your image into 112 directory and so on, thats why its important to name your folders
• Once all thats done select File > save.
Test
Fire up XPLogMod then select yout Logon Screen and put it to use.
To test it - Logoff .... winkey + L
