Startup screen modding.

[harley007]

okay so maybe this is simple, maybe not. i did a search for it and found nothing so i was wondering if anyone knew the way to change your win98 startup screen. i got the shutdown screens changed but i cant get the startup screen to take. arrgh.
i found a text file explaining how to do it to win 95, but that only worked for the shutdown screens.so what i really need to know is this; 1) what is the name of the file i have to replace, and 2)what directory do i save it to. Oh ya, 3)is the size rewquired to be 320 by 400?

any help from you tech savvy surfers would be highly appreciated. thank you.

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Originally posted by harley007 1) what is the name of the file i have to replace

C:\LOGO.SYS
Or the partition where IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS are located

2)what directory do i save it to

See 1)

3)is the size rewquired to be 320 by 400?

No, but that's the resolution it will be displayed. Wider/narrower picture will look quite surreal.

 

[harley007]

well, thats where i have saved it, and thats what i saved it as, but it still shows the lame startup screen. maybe i missed something
i will delete the logo.sys that i made and move io sys and replace it. do you think that will work?

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Nope, if you move/delete/replace IO.SYS your computer won't boot.
Maybe the picture isn't in proper format? It should be a BMP picture, I don't remember how many colors though. Maybe 256.
Check tools from http://www.cheta.net/shareware/apps/98/startup-tools.html.

 

[Phantasm66]

its 256 colours, yeah.

 

[PHATMAN5050]

If you tuped in 'Windows 98 Startup Screen' or 'Windows 98 Boot Screen' you would get multiple search findings telling you how to change it.

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

What!? Do we have a search function here??!!

 

[harley007]

yea, a search. okay. i did a search but it didnt return anything. i guess i was using the wrong terms or something. any ways, i found a proggie to do it its called logoswapper. workd great. thanks for your help tho
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