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Comment on Windows 7 Log On Screen: Show Your User Profile Instead Of “Fingerprint” by Cohen

Cohen — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:16:04 +0000

Thanks for writing this up I was able to follow the information without any issues. My only problem now is that this only works for when you first log on it doesn't work for "switch user" or "lock" is there a registry method that can make this work for those as well? I don't know that much about it but I only use 1 account so it seems like there must be a way to just completely disable the "Last Logged On" system and set a default display thats always the same thing so that switch user and lock would display the same thing as log on regardless of whether the last log on was different or not... If anyone knows how to do this in registry I'd appreciate the help.

Comment on Windows 7 Log On Screen: Show Your User Profile Instead Of “Fingerprint” by bdragon

bdragon — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:38:10 +0000

I am glad this helps anyone... I got frustrated not finding much about "fixing" this "problem" out there... When I was trying the resource editor (can't remember which ones, tried at least a couple) my 128x128 bitmap would not "take" properly - it was always like black or something, must have been something wrong with my bitmap ha ha

I also didn't know if it would be worth it with Windows file protection (or whatever they're calling it nowadays). I figured it might replace it at some point with the "real" / original dll and I'd be out of luck for all my efforts.

At least with the registry hack I would be able to easily change the profile pic the regular way and easily have a different pic whenever I wanted as well.

Comment on Windows 7 Log On Screen: Show Your User Profile Instead Of “Fingerprint” by Richard

Richard — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:53:57 +0000

By the way, thanks for your post! It was what pointed me to the right DLL file to begin with. I tried Resource Hacker first, and it could open and read the DLL, but would throw an "Access Denied" error when attempting to view/change the bitmaps. A little more googling, and I eventually came across Resourcer, which worked like a charm.

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1, in case anyone is wondering...

Cheers,
Richard

Comment on Windows 7 Log On Screen: Show Your User Profile Instead Of “Fingerprint” by Richard

Richard — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:17:06 +0000

Here's a solution that worked for me: 1. Download and install Resourcer: http://anolis.codeplex.com/releases/view/32286 2. Make a copy of C:\Windows\system32\biocredprov.dll and store it in a non-system folder 3. Using Resourcer, open the copied biocredprov.dll file 4. Replace the blue fingerprint bitmap image with your own 128x128 bitmap. 5. Save, and close Resourcer. 6. Rename the original file to preserve it (I used "biocredprov.dll.bak"), and replace it with the edited copy. 7. Restart Windows (or log out), and you'll now see your image for the fingerprint prompt A couple of notes... You probably can't do step 6 with Windows running because you won't have access permission to rename or replace the file. I used a live Ubuntu Linux CD to do the rename/replace. When I rebooted, it was all set. Also, you might not want to replace the red version of the fingerprint image (it's used when your scan is rejected). Finally, this is only a good solution for a single-user setup like mine because it will use the same image for everyone that logs on with the fingerprint scanner. Since I'm the only user on my machine, it's not an issue for me... Hope this is helpful! Cheers, Richard

Comment on Windows 7 Log On Screen: Show Your User Profile Instead Of “Fingerprint” by Adam

Adam — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:55:53 +0000

Thank you for this post.

I implemented this by adding a task in the task scheduler. Trigger: user logon, action: run "reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI /v LastLoggedOnProvider /d {6F45DC1E-5384-457A-BC13-2CD81B0D28ED} /f", task options: run with highest privileges

This does not prevent the win biometrics provider to appear when just locking the session, but one could extend the command or call a batch file the also sets the SessionData keys.

Comment on XmlException: The data at the root level is invalid…. by nexus-

nexus- — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:11:34 +0000

phew, thank god this appeared in the first result on google

Comment on XmlException: The data at the root level is invalid…. by Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:40:08 +0000

Thanks a bunch, had the same problem and you saved me some time.

Comment on XmlException: The data at the root level is invalid…. by cj

cj — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:53:25 +0000

made the same mistake you did. posted on several groups for answers. got all kinds of suggestions. finally found the answer here. strange nobody else figured it out.

Comment on XmlException: The data at the root level is invalid…. by Stathis

Stathis — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 03:42:25 +0000

I love you...

Comment on XmlException: The data at the root level is invalid…. by Jos

Jos — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 06:50:55 +0000

Hey...thanks for posting this. It helped and saved all the pain. I was using XmlSerializer.Deserialize which takes TextReader as argument. I was passing new StringReader(), i changed it to new StreamReader().
Same here, thanks for that who thought that would be the error