Bitmap displayed during boot

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.

I've tracked this down to the registry entry:

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper"="c:\\windows\\blueback.bmp"

What I tried first was to rename blueback.bmp to blueback.old.bmp as
that would be easy to undo if it caused a problem.

Of course the logo no longer appears, but instead I get a blank, black
screen for several seconds. I think a standard XP system would display a
monochrome "Microsoft Blue" screen at this point, until the Welcome
Screen replaced it.

I managed to get at the registry on my old XP system, and in that one,
I'd deleted the "Wallpaper" entry altogether.

Would someone with a vanilla XP take a look to see if the Wallpaper
entry is there, and if it is, what does it point at? If it points at
blueback.bmp then I have a replacement one; I'd welcome a copy of the
original version.

I've just deleted the entry on my new PC, but I'm in the middle of a
long-running backup, so I won't find if I've done the right thing for a
day or possibly two.

--
Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
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Steve Swift wrote in
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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.

--
The arrows are faster than rodents!
- t.

In message , Steve Swift
writes:
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[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper"="c:\\windows\\blueback.bmp"

What I tried first was to rename blueback.bmp to blueback.old.bmp as
that would be easy to undo if it caused a problem.

Of course the logo no longer appears, but instead I get a blank, black
screen for several seconds. I think a standard XP system would display
a monochrome "Microsoft Blue" screen at this point, until the Welcome
Screen replaced it.

I managed to get at the registry on my old XP system, and in that one,
I'd deleted the "Wallpaper" entry altogether.

Would someone with a vanilla XP take a look to see if the Wallpaper
entry is there, and if it is, what does it point at? If it points at
blueback.bmp then I have a replacement one; I'd welcome a copy of the
original version.

On this machine, the Wallpaper entry is present, and has the value
(None)
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