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From: Robert Aldwinckle on 23 Feb 2010 11:37

"Daves Spam" <dmathews9587(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I'm not so sure on that as on my 2 other computer one with XP and one with
> Vista and IE8 there is NO icon. Only on my Win7 machine do I get the
> privilege of a goofy looking sunflower.


Agreed. ProcMon shows it seems to be coming from here

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\user.bmp

From that clue we find

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776892(VS.85).aspx

(Microsoft search for
"User Account Pictures"
)

but I don't see my system (W7) working the way it is described there.
E.g. I changed my Account Picture, went to Manage Accounts, saw that it had
changed, tried a refresh of the above folder and then retried your link but
nothing had changed--no new .bmp files in the %ProgramData% directory and IE
was still using user.bmp.

I suspect you could replace user.bmp with your own "user tile" but closer
reading of the article suggests that this could just be a workaround for a
deficiency in IE.

Ah. There may be a better workaround for this deficiency. ProcMon shows
that there is an attempt to find a Virtualized copy of user.bmp

10:41:19.1893746 iexplore.exe 3624
CreateFileC:\Users\Rob\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\TemporaryInternet
Files\Virtualized\C\ProgramData\Microsoft\User Account
Pictures\user.bmp PATH NOT FOUND Desired Access: Read Attributes,
Disposition: Open, Options: Open Reparse Point, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode:
Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a

but that "User Account Pictures" directory does not exist. So let's
create that and copy rob.bmp there, renaming it user.bmp. BTW to bypass
security/obscurity I use an elevated cmd window. YMMV.

Nope. That still doesn't do it. IE still goes looking for the existing
user.bmp (in %ProgramData%) and ignores the virtualized copy. That would
be a bug on top of the deficiency of not better integrating the creation of
the user tile with its correct placement. So the only solution I see is
actually replacing the existing user.bmp with your own user tile. That's
unfortunate.

Ok. One last thought. What if the fact of that directory I just created
earlier not existing had caused the documented procedure to fail? Then
it's worth a shot at retesting that... No change. YMMV.


Thanks for making me find this. It was an interesting exercise.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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>
> "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:xn0goocdw37bbdp00b(a)msnews.microsoft.com...
>> On 02/01/2010 in message <uxRVU8#iKHA.1236(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl> Daves
>> Spam wrote:
>>
>>>How about it? Any idea's?
>>
>> R C White gave you the answer. It's the website that provides the login
>> box and so decides on the picture in it.
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
>> There are 10 types of people in the world, those who do binary and those
>> who don't.
>
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