Hi I'm a new member and I found this site by searching resources on trying to customise my windows XP user logon.
So far I have not been succesfull.
This is my problem:
For those of you who know the game "Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun";
the game starts with a movie called "Eva uploading".
That movie ends with a tekst printing across the screen ("Welcome Back Commander")
I have extracted that part of the video and turned it into an AVI video file.
Now I want to use that movie when the user logs in.
So when the user logs in I want to show the movie fullscreen BEFORE everything is loaded (taskbar, desktop etc...);
I have tried some things using VLC media player:
- adding a shortcut to the startup folder
- adding a registry item in various places
Now the closest I've gotten is by putting the item in the
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce"
registry.
This played the movie while the screen of windows XP still said "Welcome". So I only got the sound and not the movie. And there is the fact that the RunOnce clears itself every reboot, so that doesn't help.
the only possible way to display a movie right after the "Welcome" appears (or instead of that Welcome text) is to alter it in windows itself, but I have no idea where to start.
Getting this solved would help me a LOT.
Thanks in advance,
Marcus
So far I have not been succesfull.
This is my problem:
For those of you who know the game "Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun";
the game starts with a movie called "Eva uploading".
That movie ends with a tekst printing across the screen ("Welcome Back Commander")
I have extracted that part of the video and turned it into an AVI video file.
Now I want to use that movie when the user logs in.
So when the user logs in I want to show the movie fullscreen BEFORE everything is loaded (taskbar, desktop etc...);
I have tried some things using VLC media player:
- adding a shortcut to the startup folder
- adding a registry item in various places
Now the closest I've gotten is by putting the item in the
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce"
registry.
This played the movie while the screen of windows XP still said "Welcome". So I only got the sound and not the movie. And there is the fact that the RunOnce clears itself every reboot, so that doesn't help.
the only possible way to display a movie right after the "Welcome" appears (or instead of that Welcome text) is to alter it in windows itself, but I have no idea where to start.
Getting this solved would help me a LOT.
Thanks in advance,
Marcus