Possible to modify the boot animation?

[posix]

This is something that's annoyed me through all the versions of windows, and with Windows 10, I'd hoped Microsoft had finally fixed it. They haven't.

 

There is always only one resolution for the boot animation, but the three predominant display aspect ratios are 4:3, 16:9 and 16:10.

 

Whenever there is a mismatch, you get a distorted boot animation. I've wondered if there wouldn't be a way to fix this, and googled up the information that people apparently edit "bootres.dll" with resource hacker like applications. The primary concern however is to infuse custom boot animations (e.g. that of a playstation booting), rather than to do something relatively simple such as changing the resolution. I've struggled to find any info on that.

 

I hope it wouldn't mean to manually crop the Windows10 animation to be suitable for 4:3 displays (as is my case).

 

Is there maybe someone here experienced with this?

 

Many thanks

Edited August 23, 2015 by posix

[Tripredacus]

AFAIK it is fixed if using UEFI boot and an image is in the BGRT. However the only boards that provide a public tool (that I am aware of) to add a picture to BGRT is Intel.

[NoelC]

For what it's worth - and I realize it doesn't solve the problem, but hides it - the "Winaero tweaker" has an option to disable the animation.  It just makes it black.

 

-Noel

[Tripredacus]

The boot process for Windows 10 depends on which mode it is booted. For that program, Noel, does it work in both legacy and UEFI modes?

[NoelC]

Can't tell you.  I have only legacy boot capabilities here.

 

-Noel