Force a Lock/Logon Screen image on Server 2016+/Windows 10
By default, Windows Server 2016 sets the default logon screen's background to a solid color. Note that it's actually an image file (C:\Windows\Web\Screen\img105.jpg):
But with a Windows 10 system (Build 1607 LTSB in this case), it defaults to the image located in C:\Windows\Web\Screen\img100.jpg:
If you want to normalize the lock screen image, you can do so in Group Policy:
Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Personalization > Force a specific default lock screen and logon image.
Enable it and set it to the path of the image (local or UNC path).
Optionally, you can set the path to a non-existent file. This will display a background color:
The result, on a Windows 10 system, would be so:
Ideally, for flexibility's sake, I would recommend applying the following registry setting to disable the background image altogether.
But with a Windows 10 system (Build 1607 LTSB in this case), it defaults to the image located in C:\Windows\Web\Screen\img100.jpg:
If you want to normalize the lock screen image, you can do so in Group Policy:
Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Personalization > Force a specific default lock screen and logon image.
Enable it and set it to the path of the image (local or UNC path).
Optionally, you can set the path to a non-existent file. This will display a background color:
The result, on a Windows 10 system, would be so:
Ideally, for flexibility's sake, I would recommend applying the following registry setting to disable the background image altogether.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\ "DisableLogonBackgroundImage"(dword)=1
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