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Leg Humper Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Posts: 5474

you have to modify the new SP4 files.

Stray Dog Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Posts: 1

I have already changed my bootup screen as outlined in the article with success. My question is this... Would this be the correct way to change the standard blue background in W2K when the logon screen is coming up?

/BOOTLOGO
Use this switch to have Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 display an installable splash screen instead of the standard splash screen. First, create a 16-color (any 16 colors) 640x480 bitmap and save it in the Windows directory with the name Boot.bmp. Then add "/bootlogo /noguiboot" to the boot.ini selection.

I had a hell of a time getting the BOOT.INI file right the first time and would like some input before I try to change the background color.

Thanks in advance!!

hitandrun

Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:15 pm Post subject:

The /bootlogo /noguiboot changes the splash screen.

Stray Dog Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 3

Does anyone know where the text on the 2000 login dialog is stored?

eg. "Windows is starting up...", "Preparing network connections..."

The bitmaps are stored in msgina.dll but I can't find the text

Stray Dog Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 5

Charisma Carpenter Logo.

Here is the bmp -> http://www.jannol.com/charisma_carpenter.bmp

Stray Dog Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 3

nice, very nice Wink

Stray Dog Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 5

Thanks schmuck. hehe thats funny...

I think it is disturbing that the logos at http://www.littlewhitedog.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=17 aren't 4 bits whatever reason there might be but otherwise the little dogs made my life a bit funnier, I might come up with more logos if there is any interest of my work although C.C. was my first one... hmm I might redo that one too cause I am not all pleased with it.

Stray Dog Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 3

Perhaps you could use this shot: http://www.buffy.nu/article.php3?id_article=4478&img=CharismaCarpenter10.jpg
It's not obvious that it is Charisma, but it's a damn fine photo all the same Smile

Stray Dog Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 5

I recon it was Charisma instantly... Well I think I will not use that picture to do ant boot logo but any of the others maybe although one could come up with some nifty loading sequence like

ex.
You're Getting Butted ...

or maybe
Charismas Idea Of Enjoyable Waiting ...

If anyone have a really good idea instead of Starting Up for Charismas ass I'll make a logo ok ? Wink

Stray Dog Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 5

A bit OT but since I changed to XP yesterday I made an quality improvement and removed the loading sequence text and box for use as boot.bmp with /bootlogo /noguiboot in boot.ini but it can also be used with w2k as usual.

Note that the /bootlogo option does not work with w2k ( as far as I know )

http://www.jannol.com/boot.bmp

Stray Dog Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 2

Hya all,

For those of you running XP and want to use a random bootscreen / bootlogo
(and don't like to use more progs than absolutely needed, laptop HDD is damn small),
here's a simple batchfile to do so:

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@echo off


echo Randomizing bootlogo for next boot...


:loop


FOR /F "tokens=2 delims=." %%A IN ('VER ^| TIME ^| FIND "current"') DO SET Random=%%A


set a=C:\Graphics\Bootlogo\ntoskm


set b=%random%


set c=.exe


set d=%a%%b%%c%


if not exist %d% goto loop


copy %d% C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskmod.exe


:End

I used the batch posted by josphstalinator in this thread and made a small addition
so it won't search a random number between 0 and 32767,
which is of course aweful when booting the pc.
This simply uses a random value between 00 and 99, which hardly takes any time at all.
I'm sure you can all figure out what to change the paths to in your situation...gl

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 1:24 pm Post subject: Re: random bootlogo in XP

7i87u566u5 wrote:
Hya all,

For those of you running XP and want to use a random bootscreen / bootlogo
(and don't like to use more progs than absolutely needed, laptop HDD is damn small),
here's a simple batchfile to do so:

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@echo off echo Randomizing bootlogo for next boot... :loop FOR /F "tokens=2 delims=." %%A IN ('VER ^| TIME ^| FIND "current"') DO SET Random=%%A set a=C:\Graphics\Bootlogo\ntoskm set b=%random% set c=.exe set d=%a%%b%%c% if not exist %d% goto loop copy %d% C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskmod.exe :End

I used the batch posted by josphstalinator in this thread and made a small addition
so it won't search a random number between 0 and 32767,
which is of course aweful when booting the pc.
This simply uses a random value between 00 and 99, which hardly takes any time at all.
I'm sure you can all figure out what to change the paths to in your situation...gl

Ok, at what point does it copy the Boot.bmp file to c:\windows. I don't see it.

Stray Dog Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 2

It doesn't, it can't either unless you use the same 16-colour palette for each boot.bmp
(and the first 2 of the sixteen are already fixed: rgb 0 0 0 (= black), and rgb 32 26 21 (= some dark red).

The reason is that with XP you have to embed the reversed HEX values of the palette in the bootfile
(in the case of the batch file it's named ntoskm**.exe, with any number for the *'s).

Then it simply copies the randomly chosen ntoskrn**.exe as ntoskmod.exe in the system32 directory
(and of course the boot.ini is modified to refer to ntoskmod.exe as default and the original ntoskrnl.exe as backup).

Hope that clears it up, of course there are ample programs that will do the job of embedding the
palette and bootlogo's in the bootfile, so you could just use those and make a bunch
(the batch as it is accomodates up to 100 now).

Oh y, if you want to check it's function you could simply try this shortened batch out first:

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@echo off





echo Randomizing bootlogo for next boot...





:loop


FOR /F "tokens=2 delims=." %%A IN ('VER ^| TIME ^| FIND "current"') DO SET random=%%A


echo %random%





:End

Just run it from command and keep pressing F3 untill you are convinced
it does generate each number from 00 to 99... Wink

Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:01 pm Post subject:

I guess I don't understand and don't want to take the chance of hosing my system. I will stick with my single Boot.bmp in the Windows directory and change it whenever I want.

Stray Dog Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 6 Location: UK

Hi folks,

i found this article some time ago when i had my *cough* brand new Win XP Pro..which of course...uhm..was entirely legit *splutter* and such.
Anyway, i followed the article through & through and was very happy to have it working. i admit i'm not a whizz but i can usually find my way through things like this with an article like this one.

Anyway, i went to do it again now (with a real genuine install of XP Home on my lappy) and replace it with a pic of my wife & i getting hitched.
I use PSP9 and ensured i had a 640x480x16colours (didn't make mistake i've heard of some doing thinking 16bit instead of 16 colours).

Anyway, if i use edited boot.ini my lappy reboots Gasp

so instead i choose the "oh shit" option and hey presto my windoze XP (sp2) loads up fine and dandy..with a boring win xp home logo...

I've used bootxp and still no joy, i'm at a loss now. Sad

does anyone have any clues?

any input mucho appreciated.

Thanks,

Karl.