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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Sunday, January 20, 2002 at 5:26 pm
Posted by LozerBaby
(1 messages posted)
try this
http://www.thetechguide.com/howto/xpbootlogo/
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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Monday, January 21, 2002 at 5:01 pm
Posted by Thyrus
(2 messages posted)
Thank you
I appreciate it a lot!
On Sunday, January 20, 2002 at 5:26 pm, LozerBaby wrote:
>try this
>http://www.thetechguide.com/howto/xpbootlogo/
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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Sunday, April 21, 2002 at 9:13 pm
Posted by Tareq M. Badreddin
(1 messages posted)
Please follow these steps:
1. Go to www.themexp.org and download the boot screens that suit your taste (It's
better to download boot screen files that are 1 MB or greater in size, as they are
much more stable and less likely to cause damage to Windows XP
2. Find a link named 'How to install' near the top of the page, click it, and view
and follow the instructions WITH EXTREME CARE!!!
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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Thursday, November 28, 2002 at 11:30 pm
Posted by Saptarshi Purkayastha
(1 messages posted)
Dear Sir,
Everyone on the net is only talking about changing the boot logo including
all the army of softwares that are present.
Can anyone tell me how to change the XP shutdown logo. ????
On Sunday, April 21, 2002 at 9:13 pm, Tareq M. Badreddin wrote:
>Please follow these steps:
>1. Go to www.themexp.org and download the boot screens that suit your taste (It's
>better to download boot screen files that are 1 MB or greater in size, as they are
>much more stable and less likely to cause damage to Windows XP
>2. Find a link named 'How to install' near the top of the page, click it, and view
>and follow the instructions WITH EXTREME CARE!!!
>
>
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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 3:18 am
Posted by Soren
(1 messages posted)
Another Site to check out is http://www.themexp.org
they have loads of boot screens and logon screens for XP as well a few different
apps for preforming the changes..
On Sunday, January 20, 2002 at 5:26 pm, LozerBaby wrote:
>try this
>http://www.thetechguide.com/howto/xpbootlogo/
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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Sunday, June 5, 2005 at 1:07 pm
Posted by MIRROR
(1 messages posted)
DON'T DO IT!!!
Read the "RED FLAG" markers with those downloads:
THEY ARE ALL! bundled with spyware and they tell you that they are to keep costs
down for them but to gum up your investment instead.
On Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 3:18 am, Soren wrote:
>Another Site to check out is http://www.themexp.org
>they have loads of boot screens and logon screens for XP as well a few different
>apps for preforming the changes..
>
>
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re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Friday, July 1, 2005 at 6:36 pm
Posted by random9q
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>THEY ARE ALL! bundled with spyware and they tell you that they are to keep costs
>down for them but to gum up your investment instead.
I had similar experiences with themexp.org, but like a lot of _annoyances_, there's
a way around many of them. A good many of the "wrappers" that they include (installer
programs which eventually give you the files you wanted plus the "advertising" you
didn't ask for) are relatively transparent to the two zip utilities I have had experience
with: WinZip and PowerArchiver. (Most people swear by WinZip, but I prefer PowerArchiver
by a good margin as at the time I registered my copy it supported a few more formates
-- YMMV.) Just right-click on the installer and choose "Extract to folder " (where
is the name of the file).
You MIGHT have to pick through the resulting output to find what you're looking for,
but it may be out in the open. Note that if what's output includes a few ".cab"
files, you might have to right-click on and extract those as well.
Once you have the files you WANT, copy them elsewhere and delete the folder you created
with the original extraction and everything in it. If there was spyware or adware
amongst the pile (or even just unwanted junk), you just side-stepped it.
NOTE: themexp.org is really just a relatively big ad-site for a program by the name
of "StyleXP", an alternative to the theme manager that ships with WinXP Plus!Pack.
I actually liked it enough to pay the registration fee for it, but find the program
itself exhibits frequent flaky behavior in the actual UI. But it was at least an
expedient way to get rid of the windows logo and the word "START" on the start menu,
which I got pretty sick of. It's a bit of a shame that the site to host submitted
customizations to go with that program became such a tarpit for adware and its ilk.
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