XP Poweroff question

[JustinStacey.x]

For reasons I won't disclose here, I am interested in making my XP machine shutdown to the 'it is now safe to turn off your computer' prompt.

Now, of course, it is ACPI compatible, but by using a group policy set to disable the automatic poweroff of the machine and the use of tsshutdn, i have managed to partly achieve what I want. The machine shuts off to a blank black screen with my cursor on it. But it does not display the 'it is now safe to turn off your computer' like this: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/s...te/winxppro.png

So i tried looking at ntoskrnl in resource hacker, and the first bitmap is a blank black canvas. Ok I thought, I'll import that image into it, save it, disable WFP, and reimport ntoskrnl. I did that, verified that WFP didn't kick me in the butt, but still the computer shuts down to only the black screen. Why? I want it to display the bitmap above.

thanks.

edit: the weirdest thing is, i tried this with two Virtual machines and it worked, I didn't even need to edit the ntoskrnl. Is my hardware or software configuration stopping the logo from displaying? perhaps its because I use another monitor alongside the laptop monitor, as the main monitor?

Edited June 24, 2009 by JustinStacey