hi, ive made a bootscreen using booteditor and im up to just before making it were i have to expand the 2 files (ntoskrnl.ex_ and ntkrnlmp.ex_) so in star and run i type J:\Dynamo\I386\ expand.exe ntoskrnl.exe -c but its not expanding it, any 1 know what imdoing wrong?

thanks

ive tried doing this method aswell http://www.thetechguide.com/howto/xpbootlogo/ but the bootscreens not workin

ok ive found another possible method http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=9878&st=0 in which it says

"Before you continue, patch your uxtheme.dll by one of the following two ways.

1. Probably the easiest solution would be to download the uxtheme cab file extract it, and place it in your i386 directory"

but none of the links to the patched uxtheme.dll work can any1 help

correct syntax is "expand ntoskrnl.ex_ ntosknrl.exe" this is if you are in the current directory in a cmd promt. if not and running it from the run dialog then you need to type "expand :pathtofile:\ntoskrnl.ex_ :pathtofile:\ntoskrnl.exe" you don't need to specify the I386 folder for expand since it is in the system 32 directory and is part of the path variable. hope this helps

Edited April 22, 200620 yr by Power350

hey that worked, thatnks for the help