How To: Select a Picture for your User Account and Welcome Screen

July 9th, 2007 by SysAdmin

Windows OrbIt’s quite easy to select an image that can be associated with your user account and also be displayed on the start menu and welcome screen.

How to choose an image for your user account and welcome screen

  • Click Start (Windows Orb)
  • Click Control Panel
  • Click User Accounts and Family Safety
  • From the User Accounts category click Change your account picture
  • Select the picture you want to display and then click Change Picture or click the Browse for more pictures… link and then browse to an image that you want to use.
  • Click the image and then click Open.

Your chosen image will now show up on the welcome screen, start menu and other screens that display your account name.

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