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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Monday, September 30, 2002 at 8:15 pm
Posted by Paul D
(2162 messages posted)
Have you got the naming convention right? The Startup
screen (is it really that hard to type Startup instead of that bloody shorthand?)
is called logo.sys and should be in C:\ (the root folder)
On Monday, September 30, 2002 at 6:58 pm, Raven wrote:
>I have a question about Replace
>the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens:
>
>I have a pic to use as a SU screen that is to spec for it, I even double checked
>to make sure it was the right size and color depth.The SD screen works fine, but
>when restarting it still has the old Win98 screen.
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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Monday, September 30, 2002 at 8:47 pm
Posted by Raven
(6 messages posted)
Yes the files are properly named. I also just tried a utility to see if it would
replace it, it still comes up with the Win98 SU screen. Also tried some SUSD screens
that were downloaded they will not work as well. I did have one to work on this
pc before I reformatted it, now I cant.
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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Monday, September 30, 2002 at 9:00 pm
Posted by Ms. Eagle
(33507 messages posted)
Check against these instr., to see whether you're missing something. From Winguides
site....
Change the Startup and Shutdown Screens (Windows 9x/Me) Popular
Category: Home > Windows > Startup and Shutdown
There are three files which makeup the startup and shutdown screens, they are:
LOGO.SYS - The startup screen, usually located in your C:\ directory.
LOGOW.SYS - The 'Please wait...' screen, usually located in your c:\windows directory.
LOGOS.SYS - The 'It's now safe to turn off your computer.' screen, usually located
in your c:\windows directory.
These files are standard 256 color Windows bitmap files with dimensions of 320(w)
x 400(h). You can use basically any image editing program to change them (as long
as it supports BMP files).
Warning: Before getting started make sure to take a backup copy of all three files
(LOGO.SYS may or may not already exist).
1. Copy LOGOW.SYS and LOGOS.SYS to a temporary folder, and rename their extensions
to .BMP
2. Using your favorite graphics editor, open the files and modify them to your liking.
3. Once your finished, save the files, change their extensions back to .SYS, and
copy them back over the original files in the Windows directory (which you've already
backed-up) and you're done.
Alternatively you can create three new BMP files for each screen, just make sure
that the proportions of 320(w) x 400(h) are maintained. The file once finished should
be 129,078 bytes.
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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Monday, September 30, 2002 at 9:15 pm
Posted by Raven
(6 messages posted)
Thanks for helping, Ive tried this as well to no avail. guess im stuck with the
Win screen. At least I can change my shutdown screens.
It may just be a problem with my pc.
Thanks Again.
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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Monday, September 30, 2002 at 10:08 pm
Posted by Ms. Eagle
(33507 messages posted)
Maybe there's a default setting somewhere that you need to change. I haven't done
it, but aren't you s'posed to rename the original to old or move it or something?
I messed with it quite awhile ago, so I don't recall. There must be some way.
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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Monday, September 30, 2002 at 10:18 pm
Posted by JmC
(14166 messages posted)
Just a thought! Be sure the root directory where you put the new logo is in fact
your host drive.
JmC
On Monday, September 30, 2002 at 9:15 pm, Raven wrote:
>Thanks for helping, Ive tried this as well to no avail. guess im stuck with the
>Win screen. At least I can change my shutdown screens.
>It may just be a problem with my pc.
>
>Thanks Again.
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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Monday, September 30, 2002 at 11:13 pm
Posted by Raven
(6 messages posted)
To respond to two posts at a time....
The old files have been renamed, and the new put into place with the proper names.
And i've only got a c: as a root drive, there are no partitions.
Thanks Again for the suggestions
Raven
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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Tuesday, October 1, 2002 at 6:15 am
Posted by phantom
(5587 messages posted)
Delete the old one to the recycle bin and see if that works.
(phantom)
On Monday, September 30, 2002 at 11:13 pm, Raven wrote:
>To respond to two posts at a time....
>
>The old files have been renamed, and the new put into place with the proper names.
>
>And i've only got a c: as a root drive, there are no partitions.
>
>Thanks Again for the suggestions
>
>Raven
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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Tuesday, February 4, 2003 at 9:10 pm
Posted by Krugger
(1 messages posted)
You aren't the only one, i can't get the Startup screen changed too, just to know.
did your win has the logo.sys file before? or you just added that?.
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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 9:17 am
Posted by John W.
(1 messages posted)
i have a program.. quite small and very usefull for the shutdown and startup logos
for win95/98/98se and ME ... e-mail me and i will mail it back to you... staypuffsdaddy@yahoo.com
On Monday, September 30, 2002 at 8:15 pm, Paul D wrote:
>Have you got the naming convention right? The Startup
>screen (is it really that hard to type Startup instead of that bloody shorthand?)
>is called logo.sys and should be in C:\ (the root folder)
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