Thread: Changing Boot screen without any software

though people use softwares for this but we can change this without any software :-)

what we need?

1.an 16 color .bmp image and rename it to boot.bmp and copy it into c:\windows it shold be 640x480 exact in resolution

2. open urs boot.ini file and add these two entries there after /fastdetect option /bootlogo /noguiboot

and ur done

for easy to understand this i have made an video tutorial and uploaded to youtube and u can see this at my First blog here

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are u sure this won't affect stability of the system? cuz boot.ini file is something which isn't recommended to play with...

Originally Posted by itsmemad

are u sure this won't affect stability of the system? cuz boot.ini file is something which isn't recommended to play with...

Nope they are completely safe even if they are screwed up u can always use a live linux cd to get back to normal state.

Use can check their use here : MSDN

Yes bro these options are completely safe as suggested by Microsoft itself

What is the purpose of all this? Please educate me.

Originally Posted by just4kix

What is the purpose of all this? Please educate me.

Jus fancy stuff thats all !

Instead of looking at the boring windows logo everytime you start windows , you can replace it with with a picture of your company logo or your girlfriend () now that makes your life more interesting ain't it ?

There's a catch however that the picture will not look as good as wat u can find in windows ( beacuse during startup windows supports only 16 colur mode)

U can use bootskin from Stardock s/w to automate this process, and its free.

We can change everything to look the way we want just for the fun of it ...

I used widgets and stuff to change my xp so now it looks like vista

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