Change Default Account Picture in Windows 10  

yesir360 said:

Is it possible to change back to the old pictures without this? Like I don't like the white profile picture with black lines, would rather have the dark picture with white lines.

I know you have the pictures available for download but it seems to be missing the files for "user.bmp", "guest.png", and "guest.bmp". I'm guessing you can just copy and paste user.png to make guest.png, but the bmp files seem to have different hex values. Not sure if just renaming extension to bmp would work.

Also do these have transparency effects? I thought the original dark ones were transparent when signing in. White ones seem fully opaque though.

Hello,

You should be able to use option 2 as is with the "Old default account picture files" download to restore the dark ones.

Ground Sloth said:

Is changing the default account picture the only way to get your personalized account picture to display in the Settings header if you use a local account?

Brink said:

Hello, :)
I believe it references the same account picture in the Settings header.

It seems from my experience that when user chooses a picture from within his own images collection, it may not copy correctly to PD\MS\UAPix. In that case, it will show correctly in Accounts and on Startup, but not on the Settings banner (and also maybe not in the Start menu) if user is logged in to a Local Account (not MSA).

I didn't catch on to this until yesterday, when I posted a screenshot of my Settings banner here, and it had the user-person icon on it, not my user picture, which was accurately displayed in Accounts and on Startup. When I looked at this tutorial, I learned about the default storage in PD\MS\UAPix for the first time, and in that folder, I found the name of my selected image file, but there was no image. I followed the Brink tutorial instructions, changing the names of the various user PNGs to png.bak and pasting my own image in as the original names, and that resulted in my having my chosen image in Accounts, on Startup, on the Start menu, and on the (annoying, ridiculous) Settings banner.

Thanks, Shawn

Wisewiz said:

It seems from my experience that when user chooses a picture from within his own images collection, it may not copy correctly to PD\MS\UAPix. In that case, it will show correctly in Accounts and on Startup, but not on the Settings banner (and also maybe not in the Start menu) if user is logged in to a Local Account (not MSA).

I didn't catch on to this until yesterday, when I posted a screenshot of my Settings banner here, and it had the user-person icon on it, not my user picture, which was accurately displayed in Accounts and on Startup. When I looked at this tutorial, I learned about the default storage in PD\MS\UAPix for the first time, and in that folder, I found the name of my selected image file, but there was no image. I followed the Brink tutorial instructions, changing the names of the various user PNGs to png.bak and pasting my own image in as the original names, and that resulted in my having my chosen image in Accounts, on Startup, on the Start menu, and on the (annoying, ridiculous) Settings banner.

Thanks, Shawn

Others said:

I just followed this tutorial to change an account that had an old Microsoft blurry image. My result though is interesting:

After restarting the laptop. The account I'm using to do it still has the new style image, the broken account user still has the old blurry one, and only the other two (one a local account the second an admin) have changed.

The current account would seem to be cached somewhere, which makes sense. But the broken account; where is it storing that image?

Any ideas?
Thanks

A Microsoft account would use your synced picture instead.

Others said:

Both the broken account and my current account are on the same Microsoft account so they should both sync the same, either the blurry old one or the current new one.

If you manually change the account's picture below, does it show the picture you changed it to?

Change Account Picture in Windows 10

Others said:

Hey that was a brilliant idea, I was trying to jump through hoops to change the picture. Instead I just used the Settings app to choose the new style default image and it now displays correctly.

Thank you

Great news. You're most welcome.