Introduction: How to Change Your User Account Picture in Windows Vista
Windows XP introduced support for User Account Pictures (there are 24 of them). Here’s how to change your User Account Picture in Windows Vista.
Step 1: Step 1: Control Panel
Click on the Start button, then click on Control Panel, and you will see the User Account and Family Safety category.
Step 2: Step 2: User Accounts
After clicking on User Accounts and Family Safety, click on User Accounts.
Step 3: Step 3: Change Your Picture
After clicking on User Accounts, click on «Change your picture», click on one of the pictures (or click the Browse button and find your picture, then click Open), click OK, and click the Close button on the title bar.
Tip: For your picture, we recommend you crop the image to 128×128.
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When you create a new user account in Microsoft Windows Vista, you are assigned a random user account picture. This picture appears on the Windows logon screen and on top of the Start Menu. You can change this picture if you want to. If you are a standard user, you can change only your own picture. If you are an administrator, you can change pictures of all users. This article discusses how you can change a user’s picture in Windows Vista.
Changing your own account picture
- Click on Start Menu orb. When the Start Menu opens up, click on your picture at the top-right as shown.
- This would open up Make changes to your user account window as shown. Click on Change your picture.
- This would bring up a window with a collection of many pictures. You can click of any of the picture to choose it. Once chosen, you can click on Change Picture button to change the picture.
If you do not like the pictures that come with Windows Vista, you can also set your own picture. In the window that is shown in the picture above, click on Browse for more pictures… on the bottom-left. This would open a File Open dialog. Select a picture you want as shown below. As soon as you select the image file, the user image will be changed.
Changing other users’ account picture
- Open Control Panel by clicking on Start Menu and then clicking on Control Panel.
- Click on the category User Accounts.
- In the next window, click on User Accounts again. Click on the Manage another account.
- Select a user account from the list by clickin on it. Click on Change the picture on the left side menu as shown.
- This would bring up a window with a collection of many pictures just like in the step #3 of the previous procedure (changing your own account picture). Choose a picture by clicking on it and click on Change Picture button to change the picture.
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(PLEASE read the notes BEFORE commenting about missing user account pictures)
This is a pack of many Windows user account pictures at high resolutions, rather than 48×48 or 128×128! User account pictures from Windows XP, Vista and 7 are included, and a few other stock photos that were taken by Windows photographers. It doesn’t have them all, but it still has quite a lot considering their rarity.
If you aren’t aware, Microsoft licensed most of their user account pictures from stock photo sites such as Corbis and Getty Images. I have used a certain downloader tool to retrieve many of these at higher resolutions, and in some cases I even got some directly from old royalty free stock photo CDs. As stock photo sites sometimes take photos down, not all of them are present in this pack, such as palm tree or skateboarder, but I have been trying my best to find them. Also, if you’re going to submit any of your finds to this pack, please be aware that I do not accept upscaled user account pictures, as I feel they have less value than the original images. You can always try contacting the original photographers for full res versions, although be prepared to spend a bit of money.
Included:
Windows XP: airplane, astronaut, ball, beach, car, cat, chess, dog, drip, duck, fish, guest, guitar, kick, lift-off, red flower, snowflake (17/24)
Windows Vista: usertile2 to 12 (11/13)
Windows 7: usertile10, 11, 13-16, 20-23, 25-28, 30, 32-34, 37-39, 41, 42, 44 (26/37)
If you are unsure about anything, read the notes in each folder. These clarify reasons why user account pictures may either look different from expected or why some may be missing.
Further links:
The original files of some Windows wallpapers: archive.org/details/theorigina…
Windows Wallpaper Wiki: windowswallpaper.miraheze.org/…
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The default user picture is user.bmp.
So I can change the original user.bmp to my version so that all users without Profile Pictures will show a picture like this:
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