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Today when walking in the office to the coffee machine I saw somebody who had changed his Windows Vista Lock Screen. It really never  came to me, but my desktop screen is not shown whenever I lock my screen. And, that happens every second I walk away from my desk.

So, I turned to Google. Found several incomplete pages (at least for me incomplete), so here the result in one article…

Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the C:\Windows\system32 folder.

Right click on the imageres.dll file.

Select Properties and then select Security. (we have to take full ownership of this file)

Click on the Advanced tab and choose Owner.

Click Edit.

Select Administrator and click OK.

Right click imagres.dll again.

Select Properties and select Security.

Click Edit.

Choose Administrator.

Check Allow in Full Control.

Click OK, Yes and then OK again.

rename the file to imageres.dllold

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Find the one that matches your resolution, and open that numbered folder.

5031 = 1280×1024
5032 = 1280×960
5033 = 1024×768
5034 = 1600×1200
5035 = 1440×900
5036 = 1920×1200
5037 = 1280×768
5038 = 1360×768
5039 = 1024×1280
5040 = 960×1280
5041 = 900×1440
5042 = 768×1280
5043 = 768×1360

Right click on the “1033″ and select “Replace Resource”.
Browse to another image (preferrably of the same size… I don’t know what Vista does as far as stretching/tiling the image).
When it asks you for the resource info, type this in:
Resource Type: IMAGE
Resource Name: 50xx (your screen resolution from above, the 50__ number)
Resource Language: 1033

save this one as imageres.dll

If you are having troubles with renaming the file, you do not have full access to the file. Please walk over those steps again!

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