

Select the Default Pictures folder and select the picture you want to use. In the next window, click the Browse button.Ĭlick the Go Up link until you see the Pictures Folder.

(Where your name is the name of the account you use to login)Īfter the folder is placed in that location, on the Start Screen, click yourĪccount at the top/right and select Change Account Picture. On the Windows 8 computer, place that folder in the C:\Users\your name\My Pictures folder. In Windows 7, those pictures are stored in the following folder.Ĭ:\ProgramData\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\Default PicturesĬopy the Default Pictures folder to a USB Stick. If you have access to any Windows 7 computer, you can copy the default account pictures to a USB stick and place them in a folder on the Windows 8 PC. You can use just about any picture file for your account picture. Windows 8 account picture was strored in C:\Users\Public\AccountPictures\UserAccountSecurityIdentifier where UserAccountSecurityIdentifier is a placeholder for the Security IDentifier (SID) assigned by the operating system or domain controller to your user account. Mine defaulted to the rubber ducky on this new computer.I can't seem to find any of the others. Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help.I think the title is pretty self explanatory. Microsoft does not control these sites and has not tested any software or information found on these sites. Microsoft is providing this information as a convenience to you. NOTE: This response contains a reference to a third party World Wide Web site. How to set a default User Logon Picture for all Users in Windows 8.1(The step is applied to Windows 10, too) To configure the Default picture, we could make picture of your company's logo, and save it in "%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\User Account Pictures" as "user.bmp". We could configure the "Default picture" firstly then configure the following group policy.Ĭomputer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Control Panel\User Accounts\Apply the default user logon picture to all users The main issue is that you have configure the user account logo as your company logo and you want to disable the user to change the account picture, right?
