Win98SE boot screen

March 12, 200620 yr

Where is the boot screen of Win98 [sE] stored ?

Can it be replaced ?

There are many cool boot screens for XP available, can I patch

such a screen into Win98 ?

March 12, 200620 yr

Should be logo.sys in c:\ This is a 320 X 400 X 256 colors bitmap (BMP) file with .sys extension. You can edit it in Mspaint. In c:\windows\ you'll find logos.sys. This is the shutdown screen you can edit this one too if you ever see it.

March 12, 200620 yr

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Thanks. I found C:\WINDOWS\LOGOS.SYS & C:\WINDOWS\LOGOW.SYS .

Both are BMP's with wrong extension and pressed horizontally by factor 2.

Both are shut-down logos ("Now you can switch your PC off" & "Now Windows

is shutting down"), but there is no LOGO.SYS and no BOOT-UP logo.

More hints where to search ? :wacko:

March 12, 200620 yr

I use a prgm called "1st Impression" by Gromada software, it's an older prgm that allows you to change all your boot logos or even have them rotate. Google it to find a download as it's no longer listed at Gromada site

March 13, 200620 yr

logoS.sys = the Shutdown screen

'it's now safe to turn off your computer' seldom seen now unless you still have an AT box, this screen is shown when you're supposed to manually switch the off the power button.

logoW.sys = the Wait screen

'Now Windows is shutting down' or in some cases just 'Please wait'

logo.sys (the boot-up logo) is contained inside io.sys, you don't need to find it (don't move/delete io.sys btw)

if you place a logo.sys file in the root of the windows drive it will use that instead of the inbuilt one.

as you discovered logo.sys is an easily editable 256 color squashed BMP file but logo.sys (and only logo.sys) can also be animated (to an extent, using colorcycling) via hex editing (or certain tools)

if you want to have a look at some logos and info, MDGx posts some in this recent thread

hth.

Edited March 13, 200620 yr by miko

March 13, 200620 yr

Author

Thanks.

Created a LOGO.SYS and seems to work.

"logo.sys (the boot-up logo) is contained inside io.sys,

you don't need to find it (don't move/delete io.sys)"

Seems to be compressed.

Can I extract or replace it there ??

"I use a prgm called "1st Impression" by Gromada software"

It also uses a LOGO.SYS file, does not patch IO.SYS.

I'll have a look at the additional info.

Why is it pressed and 256 colors ?

XP logos are 16 colors only, but full 640x480 pixel resolution.

:huh:

March 13, 200620 yr

logo.sys from io.sys, i think it can be extracted (though i don't know how)

i wouldn't bother trying to replace it 'in-file'

io.sys is a 16bit file involved in the boot process

the external one is much easier to deal with.

i have no idea why it is squshed like that, thou i suspect it's a weird size due to the machine resolutions that may be avaliable at that stage of boot, or it could be a file/memory size limitation for the same reason (the OS hasn't really started up yet)

as a plus, the higher colour count than XP means you could take any XP bootup sceen you can find and with a little palette work and resizing (plus possibly some animation work) it will probably look just as good.

a proper 256 colour image (with good palette handling) looks better thou.

Edited March 13, 200620 yr by miko

March 13, 200620 yr

find such a software called "Desktop Architect" this is free-shareware (abandoned for long time and no trial days restriction) this software support changing boot logo,sysicon,web view,color scheme,themes,wallpaper,apperance,3D effect (how bevel is it?),etc

just try it and you must be find this is a software that made to replace the standart desktop themes application (found in M$ 98 Plus)made by M$, to search it, just give a google task