The Leon Hikari

The CD has a custom bootscreen BUILT IN. Now, when it makes the boot.ini, it adds the data for the boot.ini to boot windows XP with that extra boot screen. I want to remove that extra line or so for it to boot to that bootscreen, so it'll boot to the normal bootscreen.

Ok, my copy of XP has a custom bootscreen, and when I upgrade it to SP2, it says that NTFS.sys or whatever is corrupt. Now, I know that it manually creates a boot.ini. How exactly would I remove the thing that makes boot.ini have /kernel=oemkernel.exe?

CustomDefaultThemeFile="advance4-3_normal-black-whiteback.THEME" That's what I have under there, currently. I think that's the problem.

Maybe it's because I don't have %windir% in there.

So, making this into a uxtheme.dl_ should fix my problem of my theme not working, and should also fix the problem of my theme not loading up (aka it booting into classic theme instead of my theme)?

Well, is there a hacked one for SP2, or a way to get the latest one for SP1? I'm also wondering why the first time I built the CD, when I had some crap missing, the theme loaded fine (This was SP1, also). I rebuilt the CD with everything almost in order, and it wouldn't load the theme unless I told it to go to the theme. It just loaded up the classic theme. Is there any reason for this in SP1, and how do I fix it?

I've replaced all of my files that need to be replaced, and put the files that need to be there where they should. I told the winnt.sif to use a certain file for the theme, and all of that good crap. I've tried to install XP twice with this special theme, once with SP1 intergrated, once with SP2 intergrated. The first time, with SP1, everything went smooth until explorer started. It was running in classic theme when it should have been running in the theme I chose. No biggie, I just went into the settings and changed the theme. I intergrated SP2 today, and installed it. Went the same way as SP1, exept now, It won't use the theme. Anyone know how to fix this? Should I replace the file that does the theming with the cracked version again, or should I go back to SP1, or what? I can't seem to figure out what makes it not use my theme on startup. I've got "CustomDefaultThemeFile="advance4-3_normal-black-whiteback.THEME"" under [shell] in winnt.sif, but it won't use the theme. Anyone know what the problem is?

Is it possible to replace the default XP theme with a different theme after you have replaced the skinning system with the modified one?