Steve Swift wrote in
:

My employer has just replaced my old PC with a newer one.
During the boot process, after the VGA screen with the
progress bar, a bitmap C:\WINDOWS\blueback.bmp is
displayed. It is the Corporate Logo. I prefer the standard
XP boot behaviour.

SNIP

There are several image viewers with a basic function to let you
choose any format image file (which ideally - so it looks good -
should be the /exact/ pixel dimensions of your resolution),
convert it to BMP and set it as your wallpaper until YOU change
it. Messing with the registry especially in XP, especially with
wallpapers, for some reason, is very bizarre.

So get one of those and use it.

Or a wallpaper utility. Wallsmart is a super simple and
excellent one.
Butt-ugly icons but you can change them with Resource Hacker or
Resource Tuner.

http://www.bumpersoft.com/Desktop_En...lpaper/Utiliti
es/D_289_index.htm

or

http://www.bumpersoft.com/Desktop_En...lpaper/Utiliti
es/
if you want to have LOTS of choices...

To make the text under icons transparent you need to enable
"show shadow under icon text" (or something like that) in
Control Panel.

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- t.