Lets see your WinY2K Loading Screen

[Beemer]

Here's what I came up with.

<IMG SRC="http://stopslipindustries.com/splashy2k.gif" border=0>

Cheers!

[socalgal]

LOL, you're pretty good with that ResHacker, Beemer http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif (btw, good to see ya back!)

Edited ;-)

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[Beemer]

What can I say? I just don't like the way Microsoft designs things.

Glad to be back, Thanks!

I like the new reminder board at the bottom. Good feature. Sysopt stands alone once more...at the top!

Cheers!

[Beemer]

Here's a little something I whipped up to get this thread going:

winy2klogo.beemerworld.com (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Circuit/9147/tippages/beemerswindowstips/winy2ksplash.htm)

Cheers!

[tepo]

Hey beemer ! Is there anything in Windows You have NOT tweaked... LOL

Tepo

Nice idea... Hmmm....

[Beemer]

I'm hoping there's lots more. I can't wait until I get a hold of XP.

Cheers!

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[hallam2003]

well, after trying this, My computer stalls a the first strt up screen, so, what do i do now. I'm preparing to try to reinstall, luckely I'm pretty good about backing stuff up, and i don't have any of my homeowkr of there yet, but i need to find my start-up disk, and the CD. ANy ideas? or does it take a few HOURS for it to read the new file?


Hallam

[hallam2003]

hey guys, all is good now. did a "instalation repair" instead of a clean install, whew... anyway, got everything up and running in about half an hour. hehehe, that was fun. I'm going to try it again and see what happens, now that i know how to fix it when it screws up. anyway, i hope no one though it was mad about the little mishap, i just blamed it on windows be a piece of ****, and I did read the disclamer, it's no big deal.


Hallam

[Beemer]

Glad to see you got 'er going.

Cheers!

[hallam2003]

yup, i changed the screen too, took a couple of tries though, i kept saving it as high color and didn't know it.

I'm still not sure about the windows thing.

Hallam

[Acid Burn99]

Here is the image I quickly threw together for testing purposes. I'm gonna do up a nicer one.

<IMG SRC="http://216.154.125.155/boot.gif" border=0>

I have been unable to get the progress bar to work at the bottom, at first I thought it had locked but after a couple secs Windows booted normally. I'm going to use paint to save the file in it's final form and see if that works next.

Acid_Burn99



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[Mntsnow]

Sweetness http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Thanks Beemer! I have always wanted to customize my 2k boxes boot screens.


Ok so here is mine http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

<IMG SRC="http://digitalmntsnow.com/images/win2kbootscreen.gif" border=0>

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[Cody]

BTW...

How do you get the loading animation to work on the bottom (yours is fire... how do you get it to show the progress?)

[batmeat]

Very Cool. I know about the logox.sys or logoy.sys or something like that in Windows 98 that you can hack, but yours' is much better.

[Beemer]

I just made my image and stayed away from the animated line. I didn't change the progress metre slot except for adding the flames. Loaded 'er up and it worked!

The only thing I have to change in mine is the height of the flames. The tips of flame that extend into the line scroll with the line. I have to cut them down a bit is all. Everything else works like it should.

Cheers!

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[Beemer]

Here are 2 of the sites I bumped into when I went on the hunt for the "Startup Logo" hack:
<u>How To:</u>
http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00021.asp
http://win2kstartup.cjb.net

<u>littlewhitedog.com Message Boards based on this topic starting at page 10.</u>
http://www.littlewhitedog.com/forum/link.asp?TOPIC_ID=1113

(I know it's a good idea to put the actual address, but this was a doosy in length)

We might make some new bud's!

Cheers!
Keep screwing up the UBB....
Who can tell me the error in the UBB. I can't see it.


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[hallam2003]

BTW, off subject, BEERMER - I'd like to see some more of this type of thing for 2K on your site, I know I'd read every bit of it.


Hallam

[hallam2003]

in the sites, why are all these people talking about disabling sfc? they have no mention of replacing the file in safe mode? oh well, Just curious, any one else got some cool sdtuff for me to screw up?

Hallam

[Beemer]

Read neared the bottom where he says there is another way without comprimizing yourfile system.

Safe Mode

Cheers!

[hallam2003]

does anyone elses progress bar turn to read blocks? i can't rember if it was that way at first or not...hhmmm, oh well, it's looks cool on the black. i wonder if you can change the color of the bar.... not going to try it right now. need to watch some movies now.


Hallam

[Beemer]

That Win 2000 table just went in the other night. I have a few to post yet. I'm just gathering them up right now mostly. WinY2K is still pretty new to me. I've been running it since May and most of that time I was in a battle with the ACPI. (Another story)

H.I.T.

Cheers!

[Beemer]

On page 30 of the boards, there's mention of msgina.dll containing the password panels and other various panels. Changing the scroll line colours too.

Cheers!

[hawkeye177]

Hey beemer, your tweaks are really cool. You are very smart.

[Beemer]

I can't take credit for being all that smart. I just find what interests me and if I think someone else might benefit from the knowledge, I post it where it can be found. Usually someone has already done most of the work for me. I work out any bugs and publish it to the Web.

That's all. Thank You for the compliment.

Hey Mntsnow! Do your animations work? I didn't have any problems so I didn't have to discover the fix if they don't.

Cheers!

[Beemer]

Here you go Hallam.
To change the colours of your animated line:

<u>Go To:</u>
HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Control Panel/Colors

In the right hand workspace look for:

"ActiveTitle" = 10 36 106
"GradientActiveTitle" = 166 202 240

e.g.

ActiveTitle = 0 0 0
GradientActiveTitle = 255 0 0

This gives a gradient from black to red.
I'm not sure if this will effect the Startup animated line or not. Anyone know what the technical word for that line is?

Cheers!

[Beemer]

Can you get into safe mode? Go get your original that you saved and put it back into the system32 folder.

Did you make a 16 colour bitmap or a High Colour(16bit)??? Only 16 colours will work.

Let me know what happens.

Hopefully you read the disclaimer at the beginning of the page and did a backup of the Ntoskrnl.exe file.

The effect takes place upon first boot.

Cheers!


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[Stan]

Hi Beemer,

Will try the mod... looks too cool

Stan

[Mntsnow]

Yes both of the aminmated lines work just fine (Just made sure I didnt work over the top of them...I just worked around them)

[hallam2003]

did we every find out how to change what it says in the "start" button? i heard it wasn't possible, but I'm sure therer is a way. I know you can do it with a Hex editor under win98, but i always thought that it wasn't possible under 2K, or where is says windows 2000 professional sideway in the start menu thing. I'm sure it on those sites, but i didn't get time to look throught them, been busy working on my start-up screen thing.

Hallam

[hallam2003]

BEEMER - just a suggestion, but maybe you should find some time to go and update you "registry hacks" page. one article at ZDnet says "with windows 98 just around the corner..."

wow, http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif


Hallam

[bhess]

Good one beemer. Maybe I'll try it this weekend.

[Beemer]

So only 3 screens so far! Lets get some more....

Cheers!

[Beemer]

Hellam2003
Type gpedit.msc into Run. Have fun.
I forgot about this one.

Cheers!

[Beemer]

I don't have much influence with other sites on the WWW. I'll take a peek though and see if I can change the link to a little more current one.
BEEMER - just a suggestion, but maybe you should find some time to go and update you "registry hacks" page. one article at ZDnet says "with windows 98 just around the corner..."
reghacks.beemerworld.com (http://reghacks.beemerworld.com)

is updated.

Cheers!

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[Beemer]

I found the Start menu graphic using Resouce hacker.
It's in the explorer.exe in the WINNT folder.
Bitmap, 157,1033

I'm going to try the same process for changing this as the logo screen. I think it should work.

[Beemer]

I saved the new image as a 16 colour bitmap into explorer.exe .
I couldn't save explorer.exe into the WINNT folder as Windows was using it. Couldn't do it in Safe Mode either. Luckily I have a dual boot with Win98. I booted into 98 and transfered the file from there.

<IMG SRC="http://stopslipindustries.com/beemer/start.gif" border=0>

Anyone know how I would do it through command prompt?

Cheers!

[Beemer]

Double Post<IMG SRC="http://stopslipindustries.com/beemer/happyscrew.gif" border=0>

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[hallam2003]

it should be possible through the CP, just remember not to try to do it from within windows, hehehe, done, that been there. Anyway, I'd try this too, but sonce i dont' have a dual boot, i don't think it'll work, and DOS is iliminated under 2K, so i don't see how it is possible, since it is in a file that is already in use. hhhmmm, have to think on this one for while. hehehe, i guess you could configure windows to run using a different file, like explorer1.exe, the change the explorer.exe file under safe mode, then configure to change back to use explorer.exe. BUT, i have no idea how to do this, and uh, well, i don't really want to try untill someone knows it's possible for sure. hehehe, sounds like fun, but i have WAY to many files that I haven't got around to backing-up yet.

Hallam

[MTAtech]

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=324639&a=2408405&p=52035161


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[darrelld]

Hey Beemer,
New puter, new OS, new hacks. Cool!
Thanks.
BTW where ya been?

[Beemer]

Thanks MTAtech, but isn't that supposed to be on your Starting up logo screen?

Hi darrelld,

I was at school. Internet Proficiency Certificate (yawner), and A+. Lots of fun.

Now if I could find work in computers so I don't have to swing a hammer any more....

Cheers!



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[elevy]

Hey Beemer,

Here's one possible way to get some of those changes in place on files that are always in use. You don't necessarily have to use Safe Mode to do it. I've found that you can just take advantage of the Service Pack installation mechanism to do the dirty work for you.

Here's the process I used to update EXPLORER.EXE. This requires that an exploded copy the service pack files be installed locally on the HDD.

1. Make a backup of the compressed file you want to modify.

2. If the files were copied from a CD, you will have to remove the Read-only attribute.

3. At a command prompt, EXTRACT -r EXPLORER.EX_. This recreates EXPLORER.EXE.

4. Now use Resource Hacker, or other tools to edit the file as desired.

5. At a command prompt, COMPRESS -r EXPLORER.EXE. This recreates EXPLORER.EX_ for the service pack to install.

6. Re-install the service pack.

Voila! Your changes should now be in place.

I find this method works pretty well for a lot of things like this, and with the cavernous sizes of todays hard drives, I don't mind having the service pack hanging around all the time. Besides, I don't know about you, but it seems to me that it takes forever for the OS to switch in and out of Safe Mode.

elevy

[hallam2003]

Hi elevy
welcome to sysopt

Will this work on the comand promt in win2k?

Hallam

[elevy]

Hallam,

Thanks for the welcome.

Yes. As long as EXPAND.EXE and COMPRESS.EXE are present in the C:\WINNT directory (or somewhere in your path, by default they're in C:\WINNT), it will work just fine in W2K.

elevy

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[blubomber]

has anyone ran into any problems as a result of turning off the windows file protection? Any corrupted system files? What are the real risks of anything happening?

Well, i read on further and found that i do not have to disable the windows file protection since i have SP2 installed. So, next time i will read the instructions all of the way through and then post a question.

I like hacking stuff!!! hehehehe

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[Beemer]

Actually you made me notice that I don't have any mention of SP1 considerations. Thanks for the headsup.

Cheers!

[Icculus]

Here's one I made for a buddy of mine who loves his motorcycle.

<IMG SRC="http://optisite.com/tj/vmaxstart.gif" border=0>

[Beemer]

Very cool!

[Acid Burn99]

Here is my newest boot screen featuring my paintball marker.

<IMG SRC="http://216.154.125.155/delme.jpg" border=0>

Make sure when you goto save your final 16 colour version you use paint and not Corel 10 and/or PhotoShop 6 they won't allow your progress bar work.

[Beemer]

It looks like hotdogs scrolling across an open flame. The progress metre is now maroon in colour as it builds and it gives the appearance, at first glance, that the flames are moving.

I'll stick with this one I think.

"I used to be a weenie, but I'm alright naWOOooooo!"

Got ta git a life....

Cheers!
Oh..The orange colour in the flames is a in 24 colours in this pic. The actual colour of the orange is a mashed, green pea colour. Looks just fine luckily.


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[bhess]

good one beemer. The only problem with this is having to restart windows all the time just to view it! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Beemer]

I have a 47 to 48 second restart time....lol and I don't have to start windows to view it. I don't know what you are talking about bhess?

Click Here---&gt; Got Ya! (http://cablelan.net/beemer/logodogani.gif)

(Hit F11 on your keyboard when viewing)

Cheers!

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[Beemers]

Is that all we're going to get!? Just four splashes?

Cheers!
(6 sorry)



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[Beemer]

My newest and most fullfilling logo screen yet:

<IMG SRC="http://cablelan.net/beemer/logodog.gif" border=0>

I think I'll spark up the Bar-B....

Lunch time!

Cheers!

[hallam2003]

what does the animated bar look like when you do that?

Hallam

[zgf2022]

I made this in about 15 minutes and got it working without crashing anything thanks to the little white dog site.

my screen (http://www.geocities.com/zgf2022/logo.html)


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[Beemer]

Here are some other created screens.
http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00025.asp

Cheers!