Changing default Boot screen

[KournikovaBug]

I have slipstreamed SP2 into my XP Pro and trimmed it to an amazing

size of 411MB and it works just about fine. Now I would like to change

the default wallpaper bliss.bmp and also the bootscreen. I searched

the entire XP CD to find these default wallpapers but couldnt find

them. I would like to know how to go about this.

Next question is I modified the ntoskrnl.exe with Resource

Hacker and replaced bmp 1 with my own 640x480x4 bit file (16 colors).

Next in the HexViewer opened ntoskrnl.exe and replaced the color

palette of the default boot screen with my own above mentioned file.

I tried to boot with this modified kernel file but could'nt do it, I

want a little help in this, is my approach right or is there any other

way to go about it?

[*madmaster*]

This could help

http://www.windows-unattended.de/content/view/78/98/

but its in german so you need to translate the page with the

http://world.altavista.com/ site or search on http://unattended.msfn.org/

for somthing similar.

haVE fun

*madmaster*

[Zxian]

For the wallpaper, you can find a general guide here. It shows you how to replace the default Luna theme, but also there's instructions on how to change the wallpaper. There's also a registry entry that controls what wallpaper you use. Have a look around for that.

As for the boot screen - this is the one part of the computer that I would not set up UA. Messing with the NTOSKRNL.EXE file can be kinda dangerous (since it won't even boot at that point). You might want to look into getting BootSkin (freeware) from StarDock. From there, making your own bootscreen is as simple as modifying an ini file.

Hope this helps!