How to get Windows 7 logon wallpaper to tile to other monitors?

Posted by Oskar Duveborn on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Oskar Duveborn
Published on 2009-08-17T14:18:02Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 15:43 UTC
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In 2000/XP/Vista it was easy to set a wallpaper for the logon screen, either manually through tools like Logonstudio or simple registry changes by hand on prepared installation images or through custom group policies.

In Windows 7 all this works as usual, but the secondary (or any additional) monitor is just black. The mouse pointer is visible on it but no matter what settings I can't get the wallpaper to tile (or stretch or fill or whatever) over onto it.

This makes it hard to OEM/company brand the installation for multi-monitor users. More annoying is the fact that it looks officially supported to brand the logon wallpaper in Windows 7 - as it's made extremely easy... apart from this little catch.

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