Saturday, August 23, 2008

How to Change the boot screen

This is a pretty common question on the newsgroups, and also came up on e-mail this morning - how do you change the Windows XP Embedded boot screen/logo ?

From Sysinternals.com - modify your boot.ini as follows.
/BOOTLOGO Use this switch to have Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 display an installable splash screen instead of the standard splash screen.

First, create a 16-color (any 16 colors) 640x480 bitmap and save it in the Windows directory with the name Boot.bmp.

Then add "/bootlogo /noguiboot" to the boot.ini selection.
There are a ton of other boot.ini flags listed on the Sysinternals site.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Adding Programs To Stay On The Start Menu

Right click on any .exe file in Explorer, My Computer, Desktop and select 'Pin to Start Menu', the program is then displayed on the start menu, above the separator line. To remove it, click the file on the start menu and select 'Unpin from Start Menu'. Below you can check the before and after shots.