Customizing Microsoft® Windows Vista™ System Properties

Have you ever wanted to customize your Vista system properties so it's personalized to your taste? It's not that hard to do it. Just follow these simple instructions to get it personalized the way you like it.

Pre-requisite
- Back up your registry
- A Logo with bitmap (.BMP) file type

Find/Create OEMInformation key
1. Open Registry Editor (Click > type "regedit" in the Start Search field and press Enter)
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OEMInformation
3. If it does not exist, then right click on the CurrentVersion and click New and then Key.

4. Name the new key as "OEMInformation" (without the quotes)

Create values
After creating the OEMInformation key, you'll need to create values so the Windows know where is your logo and what information it'll display in the System Properties.
1. Right Click on the OEM Information
2. Select New > REG_DWORD
3. Name the new DWORD as "HelpCustomized" (without the quotes)
4. Right Click on the OEMInformation again
5. Select New > String Value
6. Name it as "Logo"
7. Repeat step 4-6 except this time you name the new string values as "Manufacturer", "Model", "SupportURL", "SupportPhone", "SupportHours"
8. You should get something like this:-


Modify values
1. Right click on "Logo", click Modify...
2. This should be your path to your logo file. (e.g. If you put your logo file into C:\, then it will be "C:\<logoname>.BMP")
3. Right click on "Manufacturer", click Modify...
4. This will be displayed as Manufacturer name in your System Properties
5. Do the same thing as you did for the Manufacturer with "Model", "SupportURL", "SupportPhone", and "SupportHours".