Where Are The Windows® Logo In Windows
XP® or Windows 2000®
The Boot Screen Logo Are Stored as a Resource in the NTOSKRNL.EXE
File, This File Are in Your Windows\System32 Directory And
It is Called At Boot By The Windows© Kernel When XP Starts.
The Process Without BootXP
The Manual Way To Change The Boot Screen It's To Replace This
File With Another Resource Hacked NTOSKRNL.EXE Containing
Another Boot Screen. To Do This You Need To Boot In Safe Mode
and Spend a Lot Of Time (See later the reason). Also you need
that you desired boot screen be in BMP Format and have 640x480
pixels and 16 Colors. To do so you will need a graphics editor
and more time...
Why I Need To Boot In Safe Mode?
1.- NTOSKRNL.EXE It's a Protected File Of The XP System, You
Can Replace It, But One Of The Newest Features of XP, Windows
File Protection (WFP) Will Replace Again With The Original
NTOSKRNL.EXE File, If You Want To Change The Logo, You Need
To Replace It Booting In Safe Mode and Spending a Lot of Time.
2.- If You Download a NTOSKRNL.EXE You Have a Possibility
Of Get a File Infected By a Virus, Bad Checksummed and More
Probabily In Another Languaje Than Your OS.
Benefits Using FreelancE VIP's BootXPv2
1.- You Can Have Lot's Of Screens (BMPs about 150 Ks) In Your
Hard Drive Using a Bit of Space Compared With The Amount Of
Space Needed To Store NTOSKRNL.EXE Files (about 1.850 Ks).
Use the 10% of Space.
2.- You Can Use NTOSKRNL Files As Boot Screens and ZIPPED
NTOSKRNLs, But It's Impossible That You Get Infected By a
Virus, BootXP Only Takes the BMPs of Your "EXE"
File, Not Executes It.
3.- You Can Use Up to 7 Graphics Formats: BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG,
PCX, TGA and TIF (without LZW Compression)
4.- Changing The BootScreen Takes Seconds And You Don't Need
To Reboot In Safe Mode Neither Tweak Windows File Protection.
5.- You Don't Have To Be a Pro For Create Your Own BootScreen
And Install It, Also you don't need to fight against palettes
and formats.
6.- You Can Preview Your Boot Screen At Full Screen With No
Need To Reboot.
7.- You Can Extract The Bitmaps Of Your Favourite Boot Screens.
8.- BootXP can change your boot screen at everytime you reboot.
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