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To: gypsy who wrote (3299)	4/29/1999 5:37:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110628

Gyp, that is a feature of the BIOS and cannot be removed. My Dell 450 does the same.

To: gypsy who wrote (3299)	4/30/1999 12:10:00 AM
From: Nemer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110628

Hey Gyp -- If anyone has found a way to take that off my startup, I would appreciate it..I don't want to go fooling around without knowing what I'm doing And what makes you think asking a dummy like me will help on the knowing what you're doing ........ LOL I spend most of my life fooling around without knowing what I'm doing. Most of the fine folks on this thread have forgotten more than I know ...... gggggg but I try to help a little .... Cheeky Kid says its' in the BIOS and can't be gotten out ..... I think that is slightly incorrect, because I've done it in the past, but don't remember exactally how .... could well have been that I reflashed the BIOS, or went into CMOS, or just what, I honestly don't recall .... but try hitting the escape key during the Dell commercial and see what happens .... I suspect that it will exit the ( I think its' called shadow mask or something similar) Dell logo and show you what is going on behind the scene with the Window action ..... I'll attempt to get my " little grey cells " to comb through the distant past --- been more than several years since I tried to remove one of the logos ---- and if I can remember how, I'll post to you ..... but I think the excape key will suffice, if you don't object to hitting it every time you want to get rid of the Dell sign ..... Nemer

To: gypsy who wrote (3299)	4/30/1999 2:22:00 AM
From: PetroLou	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110628

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 :)