Customising the NT4 boot screen and logon logo...

#1 Curley_Boy

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Posted 16 May 2003 - 12:54 AM

Two quick questions:

1. How do I change the boot screen background colour on NT4 (the one which shows the OS ver, Processor type and amount of RAM) from the painfully bright blue to black? Is a registry hack involved or would I have to use resource hacker?

2. How do I change the Windows NT flag logo wallpaper on the initial login screen (the one with the desktop green background) to a picture of my choosing?

I know the file used is C:\WINNT\winnt256.bmp and the registry value is HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\ContolPanel\Desktop\[Wallpaper: REG_STRING]

but when I save a file in .bmp format in the Windows dir ie 'Wallpaper1.bmp' and edit the registry value accordingly to 'C:\WINNT\Wallpaper1.bmp' it still doesn't show.

Aside saving the picture in Windows .bmp format with runlength encoding, are there any other limitations ie size or colour depth that need to be set?

#2 Curley_Boy

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Posted 17 May 2003 - 03:33 AM

I will try the wallpaper reg hack you suggested.

But I'm sure the boot screen colour is changeable (as it is black on some of the NT workstations in the uni library).

#3 DS3Circuit

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Posted 17 May 2003 - 06:48 AM

But I'm sure the boot screen colour is changeable (as it is black on some of the NT workstations in the uni library

I myself am curious about this, as I have not come across this .... sounds like the video driver isnt properly initialized ......

That screen has always been blue for me since SP2 .... pass the word if you come across the answer

#4 Curley_Boy

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Posted 18 May 2003 - 07:10 PM

Well I'm sure the video drivers are working properly on them as they load up properly in 800x600x16 ... surely if it wasn't then they would crash on boot or revert to vga mode.

And I'm not sure how I'm supposed to find out this little black screen trick either...

*wanders up to the student support desk*
"Er excuse me, I just noticed that some of your workstations over there in the corner appear to boot up with a black screen rather than the default blue one... Nice trick care to tell me how it's done?"

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Posted 19 May 2003 - 01:16 AM

Quote:

*wanders up to the student support desk*
"Er excuse me, I just noticed that some of your workstations over there in the corner appear to boot up with a black screen rather than the default blue one... Nice trick care to tell me how it's done?"

Um well er I'll have to ask my supervisor. If you need to do photocopying you can go into room 1.303. The public access lab is in 1.403 but you'll need to swipe your student card.