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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 12:16 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by charles clark
(1 messages posted)
in order for this to work your partition with your system files has to be fat32
for it to work not ntfs if it is ntfs you have to canvert it to fat32. becasue if
it is ntfs you can not boot to comand prompt and look at your c drive or the drive
with your system files if you do boot to comand prompt and try to change directories
it will tell you invalade directory
On Tuesday, March 5, 2002 at 3:42 pm, Andy Dobbs wrote:
>
>Hey, here's how to change that MicroSuck startup
>splash screen in Windows 2000. The details are a bit
>sketchy, but it works and is robust. Email if you have
>probs.
>
>1) Get the freeware resource editor at
>http://rpi.net.au/~ajohnson/resourcehacker/
>
>2) With that tool, edit the ntoskrnl.exe file which
>resides in C:\WINNT\SYTEM32. Be sure to edit a COPY of
>this file in a safe dir as windows won't allow a save or
>overwrite after mods.
>
>3) In the ResHacker look at bitmaps, and the s/u
>splash screen should be labelled number 1. The other 11
>bitmaps are used in other obvious windows screens.
>
>4) Select the Save Bitmap option in ResHacker after
>displaying the bitmap of interest.
>
>5) Edit the saved bitmap file (I just used PhotoShop).
>
>6) The bitmap should be 640 x 480, and after mods,
>BE SURE TO SAVE THE FILE WITH A 4 BIT DEPTH, otherwise
>windows rescales the image in funny ways when starting up.
>
>7) While still in ResHacker, and displaying the bitmap
>to be dumped, select Replace Bitmap, and then Browse for
>the new file that was created (with a 4 bit depth).
>
>8) Then in ResHacker save the new file with a name like
>ntosk.exe. Move that file to C:\WINNT\SYTEM32.
>
>9) Create a DOS boot disk. This can be done from the
>original W2K CD, as described by Jim Pile:
>
>Insert the Windows 2000 Professional CD. Open a command
>prompt and switch to the CD by typing in the drive letter
>and pressing Enter. Type: \Valueadd\3rdparty\Ca_Antiv
>
>Press Enter. Now insert a disk into Drive A and then type:
>makedisk
>
>You now have a CA boot-sector anti-virus disk that will
>boot to DOS. Shutdown and then startup with the disk in
>the drive. Just answer "3" when asked to do a boot-sector
>virsus scan (3 = NO). OK, now at the DOS prompt, go to
>C:\WINNT\SYTEM32 and the following:
>
>rename ntoskrnl.exe ntos_bu.exe (save a backup file)
>rename ntosk.exe ntoskrnl.exe (or whatever the file ntosk.exe
>was saved as).
>
>10) Shutdown, remove the diskette (and save it!), and reboot!
>
>11) This works on all W2K builds!
>
>Enjoy.
>
>andydobbs@hotmail.com
>
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