NEED HELP (booting)

Does anyone know how to change the bootscreen of windows xp without using bootskin, I mean I tried to do it several ways over the manual but it doesn't seem to work, so can anyone explain it step by step

 

ok which O/S are you using...

In 95 to 2000

you can jsut EDIT (by using Paint) the LOGO.SYS file on the Primary HDD

 

I know that, sorry, I didn't mention, I have windows xp

 

Ok.. Download the program called STYLEXP it worx like a charm

 

Yeah, stylexp is your bestt bet, but whatever you do:

MAKE A FUCKING BACKUP AT ALL TIMES.

If you screw up your ntorskol (sp?) file, you're literally fucked. You won't be able to boot into XP anymore because it's missing a required file. It's happened to me before when I was younger, I played my luck and chose not to make a backup. Stupid move as I ended up fucking up my ntorskol file and Windows couldn't boot. =/

 

Oh, ok, I'll try that and let you know of the result, thx

 

Thanks very much, you helped to end my frustration, again thanks a lot. I'm

 

my Pleasure

 

Just don't forget to backup, no matter what. Can't stress that enough.

 

other wise u shall need to Format

 

ntoskrnl I believe.

By the way, using themes and boot screens and styleXP generally slows down your computer due to the extra resources allocated to skin XP and show the boot screen. No so much the boot screen, but when replacing anything involving booting, be careful. I once lost partition tables while installing Fedora Core 5. It was pure hell.

 

but you can just remove it (StyleXP) from your system start up files ( START>RUN>MSCONFIG)

because once u have installed StyleXp and changed the bootskin ... you could always just uninstall in directly afterwards and the bootskin would stay the way you changed it... exept if u say RESTORE DEDAULTS

 

Thanks. I couldn't quite remember how to spell it properly.

 

I know all that, but I've shut down some things in order to maintain booting speed