BloodStalker

The part that is confusing me is the importing the palette. And yes it is a pain but in the end it is worth it cause i will be able to make my own custom bootscreens(won't do many)

would it work if i just replaced the appropriate progress bar image with the one from the custom theme that i downloaded and am now editing? or do i still need to do something with the palette, or is it just a matter of either eidting the progress bar image with the palette colours, or using a custom image that is already designed for the palette.

How do I edit the progress bar then???

I don't need to edit the progress bar, it is a precustom image i just edited part of it, but left the progress bar part alone, so theoretically it work

ok thank you for all your help

that worked, but now how do i determin what the numbers are in hex, this is my pallette : JASC-PAL 0100 16 251 254 252 217 167 58 47 176 247 3 69 176 0 0 2 159 107 35 4 29 90 88 33 9 150 234 254 254 220 151 42 9 0 93 105 122 3 6 49 118 65 21 29 68 112 141 154 173

i've found the default pallete but how do i find out what the palette is for my custom image is. I've tried saving the palette using painshop pro 8 but when i open the file with notepad all i get is jibberish not the numbers i need

Ok one last thing, how do i find out the palette for my custom image, i tried saving the palette with paint shop pro 8 but when i open it in notepad it is just jibberish, not the numbers i was expecting.

Once again alanoll you have come to my rescue, you rock thank you.

I took a look at that, and i don't understand exactly what I'm supposed to do. I tried using ultra edit to find the default palette, but it said that it couldn't find the string this is what i searched for: 00 00 00 00 15 1A 20 00 46 46 46 00 D2 3E 2D 00 01 65 53 00 05 35 B2 00 7E 7E 7E 00 00 92 89 00 FC 7F 5E 00 20 6B F7 00 FF A6 8D 00 04 DC 8E 00 1B BC F3 00 BC BC BC 00 FC FC FC FF FF FF is this what i should be looking for in the sp2 kernel, cause i can't find it. if not what is the string for the hardcoded palette in the sp2 kernel. thanks

Ok, I would like to know, if I just replace the bmps for all the necessary files in ntoskrnl.exe SP2 version, should the kernel work when i use it.

alanoll you are a life saver, thank you so much for your reply it worked like a charm

Thanks for the reply alanoll, i appreciate your input, i will do a search.

I tried that, but I'm using paint shop pro 8 and i couldn't get the palette file to work.

Hi there, I realize there is another post with basically the same thing, I am gonna edit it soon. I just recently downloaded a custom ntoskrnl.exe file for windows xp. Now I want to use it with SP2 but the kernel I downloaded is SP1. Now I know this one won't work, but I would like to take the necessary bmps, and edit my SP2 kernel with these new ones. Now the problem is when I open ntoskrnl.exesp1(that is the custom)certain bmps are black. Now i saved the bmp to the hard drive, but when i open them they are still black, I want to edit them slightly before i put them into the sp2 kernel. Can someone please tell me how I can get it so they will display what they are supposed to display.

EDIT: I made a different post on the same subject, but with a different topic. Go to the post with the topic Custom ntoskrnl has Black BMP

Hi there, I would like to use the method i saw in this thread for changing the boot screen, the only problem is i do not have xp pro, so therefore I do not have bootcfg.exe. Now the question I have is, Alanoll put the bootcfg.exe file for download in that same thread, but I am curious can I actually use that file in home, and if so how do i set it up so that I can use it in home, and if I can set it up to work in home, how do I set it up so it gets automatically installed with and unattended install. Now if I can't use bootcfg.exe at all in home, I saw a post by XPC-001 about him changing the boot.ini file manually using this method: [boot loader] timeout=0 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional Custom Boot Logo" /fastdetect /kernel=oemkrnl.exe multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect Now will this method work with XP Home, and if so will this allow me to have a custom bootscreen by using the oemkrnl.exe method. Now if this does work for home, is there a way I can create a batch file to do this automatically during an unattended install of windows. Alanoll and XPC-001 I would appreciate your input on these methods. Thank You

EDIT:I've reposted this question in the pinned thread Giving your windows cosmetic surgery.

It is now a sif file, thanks for all the help guys I appreciate it.

whenever i hover over the file it says text document, i take it it can NOT be a text document to work, and when it is in the proper format should i be able to easily open it with notepad, or would i have to do an open with

I just made some changes. I just realized with that last post that that may be my problem, could you recommend how I can properly make sure it is named winnt.sif.txt Here are the changes ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes OemSkipEula=Yes WaitForReboot="No" KeyboardLayout="Canadian English" TargetPath=\WINDOWS [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=Removed for security purposes EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=25 OemSkipWelcome=1 [userData] ProductKey=Removed for security purposes FullName="Removed For Security Purposes" OrgName="None" ComputerName=ASUKA [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 Vrefresh=60 [TapiLocation] CountryCode=107 Dialing=Tone AreaCode=306 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=13,17,3,2,5,16,4,12,15,7,8,10,11,9,6,14,1 Language=00001009 [identification] JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [shell] CustomDefaultThemeFile = "%WinDir%\Resources\Themes\CrystalBlue.theme" DefaultStartPanelOff = No

Hi there, I am a noob to unattended installations, and I just don't know what is going wrong. I did everything that the official unattended guide told me to do to create the answer file, I also added extras for what I wanted it to do. I put the winnt.sif file in the i386 folder of my slipstreamed sp2 folder, then i created an iso image of the slipstreamed xp sp2. When i test it in vmware, it does not put in the settings that are in the answer file. I want to choose my partition and which file system i wanna use, but I want the GUI install to be totally unattended, but the prob is when i get to the gui part, it does not do what it should from the winnt.sif file. I have posted my winnt.sif file below of course removing certain info, can anyone please tell me what I have done wrong. Please post a copy of my winnt.sif file with any alterations i need to make, so that when I run vmware, I can choose the file system and partition but have the rest of it unattended. ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated=0 UnattendedInstall=Yes AutomaticUpdates=yes [unattended] UnattendMode=GuiAttended OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS UnattendSwitch=yes WaitForReboot=No [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=Removed Password Encryption Info EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=25 OemSkipWelcome=1 [Display] Xresolution=1024 Yresolution=768 [userData] ProductKey=Removed Key For Now FullName=Something OrgName=None ComputerName=Something [TapiLocation] CountryCode=107 Dialing=Tone AreaCode=306 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=13,17,3,2,5,16,4,12,15,7,8,10,11,9,6,14,1 Language=00001009 [shell] CustomDefaultThemeFile="%WinDir%\Resources\Themes\CrystalBlue.theme" DefaultStartPanelOff=No [identification] JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes