startup screen

[Zonewalker]

Trust... and the_JinX... and anyone else ..... Theme XP is actually at

http://www1.themexp.org

(note the www1)... they moved servers recently. However the prog u are looking for will not be there... Theme XP only has replacement logins, start ups, wallpapers etc. The prog you need to change winXP start up screens is to be found at

http://www.tgtsoft.com

its called style XP... and it'll cost you about $20 if you want to use it after the trial period.

note that MS also changed logonui.exe and associated files with SP1 so any login, startup etc made prior to SP1 will not work if you have SP1 installed

enjoy

Z

[Jibo]

hey noodle.
how do i create a .sys file? and do i replace io.sys with it?

[secretagent]

Originally posted here by Jibo
hey noodle.
how do i create a .sys file? and do i replace io.sys with it?

try backing up, then opening c:\windows\logow.sys or c:\windows\logos.sys in paintbrush or another graphics program and edit it, then save it. don't replace io.sys i think it might have some other stuff there that windows actually uses (io would stand for input/output), just dump the logo.sys file in the same root directory though.



regards,
mark.

here's one of my shutdown screens. i use it as desktop too (for all my linux and windows boxes)! >=)

[secretagent]

here's another one. both are nothing really special, just something that i did when i was bored one day.

regards,
mark.

[Dhej]

Hehehehehe
Hehehehehe

I'm so l337. (Please note the self-mocking tone).

Some id10t luser on the school network had left her computer's C:\ shared r:w ...

So, not wanting to do anything destructive..., I grabbed her logo.sys and flipped it in Photoshop so that it was upside down..., and then I put it back onto her system...

But wait it gets funnier..., I work as a Student Assistant for the comp center..., so I see in the luser problems db "suspected virus" and since most student machines are set-up to named as the owner's username, and hers followed that system, I had a good laugh.

Then it gets better, I decided to save my cohorts the problem of trying to figure out what was wrong (as there wasn't anything "wrong"). So I go to her room, and notice that she is HOT. And I go into DOS, and rename logo.bak to logo.sys and then unshare her C:\ and then reboot. And she gushes at me like I am some kind of hero... Ofcourse it didn't get me anywhere, what is a 6 foot blonde basketball player going to do with a computer geek other than scoff, but it made my day, and my boss thought it was funny (after scolding me for poking around on other people's computers).

As much as I hate being paid minimum wage to hold people's hands by plugging a NIC into their box, running a cable from their box to the wall, and then going into the Network control panel... Sometimes, I get a good laugh.

What is even funnier is that people think I know stuff about computers... A monkey could do my job...

But hey.
Thought I'd share a laugh,
Dhej

[noODle]

Originally posted here by Jibo
hey noodle.
how do i create a .sys file? and do i replace io.sys with it?

You do not need to modify io.sys.
Just create a .BMP with the size that the logow.sys logos.sys are.
Than rename it to logo.sys and place it in your systemroot folder (c).

[instronics]

Noodle...hmm, i dont think that would work renaming a bmp to sys. That would F*** up the boot screen (i might be wrong, since it years ago that i messed with that). What i used to do was make any pic i liked, then i opened the sys file in psp, and just copy paste the bmp pic onto the sys pic and saved it. I also recall having problems when i saved it as a bmp and then just renamed it to sys. Correct me if im wrong, it years ago that i messed with that.

[noODle]

You can use any bmp you would like an rename it logo,-logow,- or logos.sys.
Just keep the correct size and let it have the correct attributes.

[CXGJarrod]

Here is a link on how to change it in Windows 2k

http://www.epinions.com/content_2499256452

[Jibo]

thx for the help guys, good thread.