re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Tuesday, October 16, 2001 at 7:17 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by JBoY
(1 messages posted)
Ok I just did it without a hitch.. I'm running 2k with ServicePack 2.. Before you
do anything copy the NTOSKRNL.EXE file somewhere in case you f#$k up you have something
to replace it with (hopefully you know dos) First you need 2 programs.. ResHacker
and Irfanview .. Use reshacker to open up ntoskrnl.exe (either one in C:\winnt\system32\
& C:\winnt\ServicePackFiles\i386)..
Under "Bitmap\1\1033" is the image you can modify.. So you make your picture in photoshop
or whatever.. Then use Irfanview to open your bitmap, under "image" go down to "decrease
color depth" set it to 16 colors. (You can do the same for Bitmap #7, which is the
screen when your system crash and windows is scanning your files..) ..Save the bitmap
somewhere, go back to reshacker and click on "action" then go to "replace bitmap"
then select "open file with new bitmap" then select "replace".. do that for all the
bitmaps you wish to change.. Then save the new file as NTOSKRNL.new in both C:\winnt\system32
and C:\winnt\ServicePackFiles\i386 .. You can use your windows startup disk or another
os if you're dual booting.. Get into dos, go to your system32 folder, "rename ntoskrnl.exe
ntoskrnl.old" then "rename ntoskrnl.new ntoskrnl.exe" .. Then go to the ServicePackFiles\i386
folder .. and do the same thing.. Restart in 2K and poof!
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