Gypsy
I found this on the Happy Hacker site, I haven't tried it, maybe Richard or someone else can verify it.
Lou
Subj: Changing the windows98 startup and shutdown
screens
Ok, the first thing to do is to check if you have a
c:\logo.sys file. This file is actually just a BMP file(BitMap), it's
a graphics file. It could be hidden, or read-only or set as system
file. To check if it's a hidden file, open an MS-DOS
prompt, type cd \ and then type
attrib *.sys
This shows all *.sys files, no matter what their
ATTRIButes are. If you haven't got the c:\logo.sys file, I suggest
you copy your c:\windows\logow.sys file to your c:\, because the
file size is kinda weird, and the pic is cropped up. Now, then you type attrib *.sys and you have the file, you could e.g. get something like the following:
C:\>attrib *.sys
A SHR MSDOS.SYS C:\MSDOS.SYS
SHR IO.SYS C:\IO.SYS
SHR LOGO.SYS C:\LOGO.SYS
A CONFIG.SYS C:\CONFIG.SYS
As you can see here, this logo.sys has SHR
attributes, which means System, Hidden and Read-only.
Unset those attributes by typing:
attrib logo.sys -s -h -r
Then rename the file by typing: ren logo.sys logo.bmp
Now you can write to the file.
Open it in Paint, or if you have a better graphics
editor, open it in there. It's very handy to adjust the size of the
image to 640x480, and then to crop it back to it's original size when
you're done editing it. After you've made changes to it (or maybe even totally replaced it), go to your MS-DOS prompt again, and rename the file back to logo.sys (ren logo.bmp logo.sys), and set the attributes back(attrib +s +h +r logo.sys)
The Shutting Down and It's now safe to blablabla screens work by the
same routine, except they are located in c:\windows (or whereever you
installed win)
Have fun :) |
