Need help making an XP login screen

[Super Christ]

Does anyone here know how to make a custom windows xp login screen? I just can't seem to figure it out. I'm trying to make it be the attatched image, with as little text covering it up as possible. Can anyone help me out?

[Samuraid]

It can be tricky, but this resource should describe most everything:
http://www.thetechguide.com/howto/xpbootlogo/

[Super Christ]

The tutorial describes how to make a boot screen, not a login screen - but, I'll see if that resource hacker it links to can help me beat uilogon into submission.

[Endless]

There should be plenty of tutorials on the web about how to make a logon screen using ResHacker.
Like <a href="http://bfarber.com/index.php?showtopic=6904">that one</a>.

[Samuraid]

If you are into registry editing, I'm pretty sure you can set a custom BMP image by changing:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper value to the path for a BMP file.

[Super Christ]

Thanks for the help - I'd have never found that resource editor had you not posted that link, Samuraid. And that walkthrough you posted, Endless, was far more useful than anything I had found on my own.

It still needs some work (there are some parts that I want to be transparent that refuse to become so, and some text I can't quite figure out how to get rid of) but for the most part it is made. Thanks for the help!