I have taken off the XP style login and I am currently using the default login, the one similar to the Windows 2000 login screen. The colours for this are the windows default colours and are completely different to my current colours. Is there anyway that I am able to change the colours of this logon screen? I am very familiar with this operating system and have tried everything I can think of! -pls help...

One thing you can do is change all the settings in the registry by hand: Logon desktop options (eg wallpaper screensaver etc_ HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Desktop\ Logon Colors (eg window color, menu color etc) HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Colors\ But I personally prefer the windows GUI to arrange things: 1) Delete c:\windows\system32\dllcache\logon.scr 2) copy c:\windows\system32\logon.scr to a safe place 3) copy c:\windows\explorer.exe to c:\ 4) rename c:\explorer.exe to c:\logon.scr 5) move c:\logon.scr to c:\windows\system32\logon.scr 6) ignore any 'system-change' warnings.(Keep the 'dangerous' file) You can check if it worked by exploring c:\windows\system32\ and look foor logon.scr. If all went ok you will see the icon for logon.scr changed to the explorer icon. (nb. Don't just change the screensave.exe value to explorer.exe, it does work but not as good as this way.) Now open regedit and go to HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Desktop change value ScreenSaveTimeOut from 60 to 4 Now log off and wait 4 seconds. Explorer pops up and you can surf to the control panel, change the display settings. Close the explorer window and you're back at the login prompt. Login and do the whole systemfile-replace thingy again but now restore your old login.scr. Don't have to change the screensavetimeout value back, you changed display settings including screensaver timout. Luck, Brt

Pls don't get confused but step 5) in the systemfile replace 'trick' should be 5) move c:\logon.scr to c:\windows\system32\logon.scr (replace the old file)

You are a legend, thankyou very much!