How to modify the Windows 8 system inactive user avatar

Win8 is not activated in the personalization settings limit is quite a lot, I suggest you activate it now! If you don't want to change your avatar, you can try it. You can modify the user avatar method by replacing the Win8 default avatar file. Although it is a bit of a hassle, this method is never out of date.

Operation steps

Prepare a picture of your avatar, and then crop two pictures of size 448*448 pixels, one is bmp format, the other is png format, To prepare png format pictures in 40*40 and 200*200 formats, the pictures can be made with PS.

Then replace it in the C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\User Account Pictures folder. Log out or reboot to see the new avatar.