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Help => Windows 7 => Topic started by: gtjgtj on June 16, 2012, 02:59:07 pm



Title: User Picture transparent? Is it possible?
Post by: gtjgtj on June 16, 2012, 02:59:07 pm
Hi,

here's my next "problem":

Is it possible to change the user picture in transparent?

All I tried so far has miscarried: 32bit bitmap with alpha channel, png and gif pictures. 24bit Bitmap with "magic pink".

I'm afraid that transparency is not possible, is it?

The only thing I could do was a pseudo transparency with an image which looks like the background in this area.

Do you have any other tips for me?



 


Title: Re: User Picture transparent? Is it possible?
Post by: gtjgtj on June 16, 2012, 05:03:01 pm

The user picture in the start menu I had almost disabled with this function:

Start Menu > Panels > Basic > UserPane (USERPIC:BOOL = 1) -> (USERPIC:BOOL = 0)

But this has only an effect in the start menu but not for the logon screen. :'(


Title: Re: User Picture transparent? Is it possible?
Post by: Panda X on June 16, 2012, 05:04:16 pm
The user account picture doesn't support 32-bit images I'm afraid. If you wanted to remove it from the logon or use a custom image you'd have to modify the DirectUI code to do so, which can be difficult because if you mess up you can't log on.


Title: Re: User Picture transparent? Is it possible?
Post by: gtjgtj on June 16, 2012, 06:58:16 pm
OK, thank you so far