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Postby Toby » Wed May 17, 2006 7:50 pm

hi people,

i found a custom uplink welcome screen on modlink, and i was wandering whether anyone would have the time to create an uplink boot screen.

i would try it my self, but i'm not very creative and also i haven't got a clue how to make one

thanx
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Postby doormat » Wed May 17, 2006 8:26 pm

You mean for windows?

If you're running 9x, then the file you want is called "logo.sys"

You can rename it to "logo.bmp", edit it, then rename it back and you're done. Be carefull to get the colour depth and size the same though, or it won't work.

Win XP is much more complicated, I understand...
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Postby Toby » Wed May 17, 2006 10:44 pm

hi sorry, i mean running windows xp home, like the one for the welcome screen

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Postby TimTim » Thu May 18, 2006 6:09 pm

You'd want to hack winlogin.exe then. I can't remember where the guide is but I'm sure a google would turn it up.
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Postby Deepsmeg » Thu May 18, 2006 7:55 pm

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Postby Spectere » Fri May 19, 2006 1:43 am

There's no need to modify winlogon.exe. Stardock has a rather nice tool called LogonStudio. It gives you a way of modifying it graphically.

Get it here (it's freeware):

http://www.stardock.com/products/logonstudio/

If you want to modify the boot screen, the one with the Windows logo, grab Stardock's BootSkin application (which is also freeware):

http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/

I've used them both extensively with no issues whatsoever.
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Postby Deepsmeg » Fri May 19, 2006 11:13 am

Spectere wrote:There's no need to modify winlogon.exe. Stardock has a rather nice tool called LogonStudio. It gives you a way of modifying it graphically.


Umm...
Errr...
OK....
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Postby Spectere » Mon May 22, 2006 7:10 pm

What I meant was, there's no need to modify winlogon.exe. LogonStudio gives you a way of modifying the logon screen graphically, without getting your hands dirty.

Sheesh, so picky. ;)
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Postby Deepsmeg » Mon May 22, 2006 10:00 pm

Which still modifies winlogon.exe, ergo there is still a need to edit the file to achieve your goals.
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Postby Spectere » Mon May 22, 2006 11:25 pm

Rather than replacing Microsoft's version of the file (which is apparently logonui.exe, not winlogon.exe...:oops:) with a hacked one, it makes a copy and applies the data: logonuix.exe. When you uninstall the program, it points the appropriate registry entry back to your old logonui.exe.

In conclusion, it's technically not editing your logonui.exe file. ;)
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Postby AntiPatik » Tue May 23, 2006 5:25 pm

Or, you could use Style XP...
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Postby Toby » Tue May 23, 2006 5:49 pm

sorry to let you know, but i've already tried style xp and it slows your system down quite alot.

i am just looking for someone to design one and possibly make one as well, thats all i'm asking

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Postby Spectere » Wed May 24, 2006 7:36 pm

StyleXP really shouldn't cause any problems. All it does is use the XP Visual Styles engine. Then again, if the application isn't to well written...ehh.

If you want a better solution, either grab WindowBlinds (it uses its own skinning engine, but is very quick) or hack the uxtheme.dll yourself (or, rather, with the aid of a nice friendly utility):

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=uxtheme.dll+hack&btnG=Search

The uxtheme.dll patch is the ultimate poor (wo)man's theming solution, and if Luna (XP's standard style) works fine on your system, so will everything else you get for it.
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Postby doormat » Wed May 24, 2006 9:08 pm

If you want the best solution, use Restorator to unpack logonui.exe, extract the images, change them, repack it and then upload that.

This requires a registered copy of Restorator, of which I have not got.
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Postby FTR123 » Thu May 25, 2006 2:14 am

Why would u want to change that anyway :S

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