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Change Windows Startup Graphic
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Change Windows Startup Graphic:
by Raymond Garcia
WebTechGeek.com
Change Windows Startup Graphic: Before your computer displays the Windows
Desktop, you're treated to an animated (640 x 400) Microsoft
Windows advertisement. This graphic is embedded in the
Io.sys file in your root directory, and is easy to change.
If you don't want the logo's to appear, you may open "Msdos.sys"
(hidden file at C:\) in Notepad. Add or edit the line
"Logo=0" under [Options].
Windows stores the splash screen in the
file LOGO.SYS. Even though this file has the SYS file
extension and is marked as a system file, it's actually
a bitmap file created in Paint. This means that basically
all you have to do to replace the Windows splash screen
is create a new bitmap and save it as LOGO.SYS.
Before you begin, you should rename the
existing LOGO.SYS file so you have a back-up copy of the
original splash screen. Since LOGO.SYS is a system file,
Windows Explorer and My Computer consider it a hidden
file, even though the hidden file attribute isn't set.
Therefore, neither of these hard disk navigation tools
will display LOGO.SYS unless you change the View option.
You can locate the LOGO.SYS file easily
with the Find utility. To quickly access the Find utility
from Windows Explorer or My Computer, use the [Ctrl]F
keyboard shortcut. Once the Find dialog box appears, type
LOGO.SYS in the Named text box, select the C drive from
the Look in dropdown list, and click the Find Now button.
Once Find locates and displays LOGO.SYS, right-click the
file, select the Rename command, and then give it a new
filename. For example, you might rename it LOGO.OLD. Then,
close the Find window. By saving the file under a different
name, you can restore it by simply rename the LOGO.OLD.
Note: If you installed Windows Me over Windows
95 with Microsoft Plus!, there may be an additional file
in your root directory, Logo.sys, which contains a slightly
edited version of the original advertisement. In spite
of its sys extension, it is a bmp file and can be edited
by MS Paint. Change Windows Startup Graphic!
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Within Win 95/98, in the root of your C: (main) drive
is a file called logo.sys, which is your startup screen.
In your Windows directory are logos.sys and logow.sys,
which are your Shutdown and 'Wait till Shutdown' screens.
They might not be there, when included in some other file.
Placing new files with these names will replace them anyway.
You can just rename a bitmap to a .sys file.
Animated Logo: You can create your own animated
Logo.sys file and replace Microsoft's sartup graphic with
your own. You can animate the graphic, but you don't have
to use animate the graphic.
The size: If you view an existing Logo.sys in
MS Paint, you'll notice that it is sized 320 pixels wide
by 400 pixels high. The Windows startup routines stretch
it out to 640 x 400 when it's displayed. You can create
a new graphic at 640 x 400 — or at 533 x 400 if you
want to maintain the 4:3 ratio (width to height) that
is the standard for video monitors — and then use
MS Paint or Paint Shop Pro to shrink the graphic to 320
x 400.
Color: Your Logo.sys file must have a color depth
of 256 colors (8 bit), and its file size must be 127K.
If it is 320 pixelsx 400 pixels x 256 colors, it will
be 127K in size. The Windows startup routine will reject
a Logo.sys file that doesn't meet these criteria.
Software: There are lots software on web that
will help you change your windows animated Logo.sys. Here's
some replacements available online. Change Windows Startup Graphic!
After you create your bitmap, save it as LOGO.SYS in
the drive C folder and close Paint. The next time you
start your system, you'll see your new startup splash
screen.
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is a freeware application for changing your Microsoft
Windows startup and shutdown screens, also known as boot
or logo screens. The program's distinguishing feature
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its name. Once you save a set of images to a scheme, it
is very quick and easy to reload and apply those images
as the logo screens LogoSchemes
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Note: If you delete Logo.sys, the graphic
embedded in Io.sys will be used instead. Getting rid of
Logo.sys doesn't make the graphic go away. But if you
set Logo=0 in your Msdos.sys file, no graphic will be
displayed before the Windows Desktop appears. Your \Windows
folder contains an additional graphics file named Logos.sys.
This is the screen you see when you exit Windows. Just
as with Logo.sys, you can edit this file or create a replacement
for it. Change Windows Startup Graphic!
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