If you are using
Windows 8 or if you are following this blog regularly, you might be aware of the new
Lock Screen
present in Microsoft's latest OS Windows 8. This new Lock Screen is
quite similar to the screen present in smartphones. Windows 8 Lock
Screen basically shows current date and time along with a nice
background image which can be changed using PC Settings aka Metro
Control Panel.
We have posted a few tutorials in past to customize Lock Screen in
Windows 8 such as customizing date and time format, customizing day name
appearance, changing background image and disabling Lock Screen. You
can find them at following links:
Today in this article, we are going to share a new freeware which
allows you to tweak and customize Windows 8 Lock Screen. This free tool
has been developed by our friend
hb860.
"
Lock Screen Customizer" is a free and portable software for Windows 8 which allows you to:
- Change Lock Screen background image
- Change date language
- Change date and time format (12 or 24 hours format)
- Change color set of Login or Sign in Screen
- Set Slide Show of background images which change at every startup
- Enable verbose status messages at login screen as described here
- Disable or turn off Lock Screen
You can see this small utility comes with many useful features. You
just need to download the utility and run the appropriate version and
you are ready to tweak Lock Screen.
It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 8. Interested people can download it using following link:
