C#

How to set the Windows 7 user account picture programmatically?

Posted by Norman Bauer on Aug 12, 2011 in C#, Environment, VB.net | 6 comments

Windows 7 offers the possibility to show small user account pictures, for example in the start menu or on the lock screen. Since there is no documented way of setting this picture programmatically here is a solution for developing a small application that can do this for you. You’ll simply need Visual Studio – either with C# or Visual Basic support. You can get your free edition here: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/express. Create a new console application, copy and paste the following source code an build the solution. The resulting application will be able to set the user...