Today I got a bargain netbook in the Carphone Warehouse clearance sale – I’d ordered one yesterday online within minutes of the sale starting to be told they were out of stock and were cancelling my order a few hours later. Gutted. So I trapsed round their shops today and eventually picked up a brand new Toshiba NB250 “half-price” for just £120! Bargain!
But it seems Toshiba netbooks have a disgustingly garish OEM/branded background screen that’s displayed during startup and logon (though Win 7 starter still has the standard Windows 7 desktop background). Turns out this isn’t too tricky to get rid of (and yes, it works on Windows 7 Starter).
Just head on into the registry and find the key called: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background – change the value from 1 to 0 and you’re back to the default Windows background.
You can apparently also change the background to any picture you want if you’re so inclined, but I just want something slightly less distasteful than Toshiba’s background so I’m done there. Hope this helps someone.
Very useful, thanks.
I can’t believe how ugly the default Toshiba screens are.
And also how much crapware they load up on top of Windows!
cheers
Wow man. Thanks! I too had toshibas custom logon wallpaper on my nb505 and this trick made it go away!