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win2k splash screen

  • 17-10-2002 1:01am
    #1
    GUI
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭


    saw thread on winxp splash screen..
    im looking for app to do the same to 2k..

    i rememeber reading article how to do it manually
    few years back with some app


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  • #2
    Ste-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,751 ✭✭✭Ste-


    shud it not work by replacing Io.sys and also logos.sys and logow.sys ???

    change them to ur own splashes with the correct settings of 320 x 400 pixels 256 colour bmp.


  • #3
    GUI
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭GUI


    thats how u do it on win9x!
    not nt line


  • #4
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    2k doesnt use those files.
    try here it seems to be what your looking for, and prolly has links to all the stuff you need (or use google you lazy bastard!)


  • #5
    spongebob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,143 ✭✭✭spongebob


    is the desktop wallpaper

    right clik on natty graphic in IE4 - IE6 or Netscape

    Set Desktop Wallpaper Option.

    (in the display control panel you may stretch center or tile it)

    in 2k and XP this natty graphic also becomes a startup and shutdown graphic saves as a file named IEWallpaper.BMP

    in the

    \winnt

    root OS directory

    M


  • #6
    GUI
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭GUI


    cheers
    also u can change loggin in logos
    winnt256.bmp in c:\winnt
    recognise it :-)


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  • #7
    po0k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,815 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    {edit} Just saw tman's post - he clinched it allready - enjoy {/edit}
    I posted up a thread before about win2k Boot logos
    In it was a link to an app called exe hacker or something
    You can open up Win32 exe files and look at the stuff contained in them (ie bmp files)
    Editing ntos.exe or soemthing you can see all the boot logos and logon-splashes etc. and can modifiy them to your hearts content.


  • #8
    BigEejit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭BigEejit


    The littlewhitedog.com link is the way to go ... I did it on my PC at work first (just to make sure I wouldnt fry my PC at home, who gives a damn about a work pc????:D) ... so now my pc boots with a random boot screen (mostly simpsons types) ...


  • #9
    banbutcher
    Registered Users Posts: 483 ✭✭banbutcher


    BigEejit how did you get it to be a random splash screen??


  • #10
    ando
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭ando


    Originally posted by BigEejit
    who gives a damn about a work pc

    only us sys admins :rolleyes: !


  • #11
    Mysterio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 224 ✭✭Mysterio


    I did this a while back on windows2k, the hardest part for me is getting the pallete right.


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  • #12
    Drazhar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭Drazhar


    if you make your own screen for the bootup, ive found PaintShopPro is sweet. Its got this progressive encoding option, so you dont loose many colors when you convert it to BMP and stuff. I have two starwasr screens, give us a mail address if anyone wants them.

    Littlewhite dog is the way to go. banbutcher, littlewhi... have a program or something, cant remember fully, but it changes the screen everytime you boot up.

    Hmm, just got an idea for a boot up:

    "Im booting up now, so everyone get ready for some Chaos, Panic and Disorder!!"


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