Changing the XP boot logo without extra software possible?

Well is it? All my Google hits give me nothing but commercials, and well, if I wanted to know how to change it with software I'd Google that, somehow Google disagrees with me and seems to ignore 50% of the search term.

 

Right, I think I found a way, strangely enough I found one site that didn't use external software, woho!

Thread can be closed or somethin'

 

And you're not going to share with the rest of us?

 

Please share. :cry:

 

It still uses resource hacker, but it seems according to all sources as it's as close as you get next to actually recoding XP

http://www.thetechguide.com/howto/xpbootlogo/

 

There, there, pixelot, need a tissue?

 

Sweeet....

Thanks for the tissue, Shyster1.

Vista directions: http://www.4neurons.com/other/Vista/boot.html

 

BootSkin

made by stardock.

So u dont even need to bother looking at others.

 

Well yeah, I'm doing this for my school, so it requires that it's license free, thus that won't do, plus it's a drain on the system and I've used it myself only to have to disable it in fail safe (I hate everything made from Stardock, they've never done a good application, only fancy ones that kills your performance).

 

Or, there's always the DIY way, which I finally remembered, as explained on this webpage (amongst many others):

(1) Get a bitmap image that's 640x480 and 16 colors, and save it as boot.bmp in the Windows folder;

(2) Open the file named boot.ini in notepad (or other text-only text editor - MS Word will not work well here );

(3) Save a backup of boot.ini - heck, save several backups if you're paranoid like me ;

(4) Add the text "/bootlogo /noguiboot" to the end of the line in boot.ini that specifies the operating system to boot, so that, in a one-OS boot.ini, the line under the section heading "[operating systems]" looks something like this:

(5) Save boot.ini back exactly the way it was (other than your additional text ).

With that, you should now have your own custom (albeit perhaps not imaginative ) boot logo!