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Startup animation?
In the "Win7 won't boot from seat dock" thread, Paul said
(Windows 7 has the canned "juggler balls" animation, while Win8/Win10 are the "ferris wheel balls". On Windows 7, there's actually a file with a frame by frame animation stored in a "very tall" image file.) That sounds like you've cracked the structure of the animation - have you? I rather like the idea of being able to have an own-brand animation, like you could with '9x startup; that used palette switching, and some rather beautiful startup animations were created for it. (Not by me! Well beyond my artistic abilities.) [I vaguely remember something for XP as well, but I think it was more or less limited to the progress-bar type animation, plus being able to change a static background image.] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf .... of the two little boxes in the corner of your room, the one without the pictures is the one that opens the mind. - Stuart Maconie in Radio Times, 2008/10/11-17 |
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Startup animation?
On Thu, 3 May 2018 01:26:36 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In the "Win7 won't boot from seat dock" thread, Paul said (Windows 7 has the canned "juggler balls" animation, while Win8/Win10 are the "ferris wheel balls". On Windows 7, there's actually a file with a frame by frame animation stored in a "very tall" image file.) That sounds like you've cracked the structure of the animation - have you? I rather like the idea of being able to have an own-brand animation, like you could with '9x startup; that used palette switching, and some rather beautiful startup animations were created for it. (Not by me! Well beyond my artistic abilities.) [I vaguely remember something for XP as well, but I think it was more or less limited to the progress-bar type animation, plus being able to change a static background image.] IIRC, Windows 9x boot image is stored in a separate BMP file (but without ..bmp file extension). So, changing it is quite safe. Windows 2000+ boot animation images however, are not stored in their own file(s). Instead, they're stored as resources of DLL file. So changing them would mean to hack the DLL - whether it was done using a resource editor or a hex editor software. |
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... In the "Win7 won't boot from seat dock" thread, Paul said (Windows 7 has the canned "juggler balls" animation, while Win8/Win10 are the "ferris wheel balls". On Windows 7, there's actually a file with a frame by frame animation stored in a "very tall" image file.) That sounds like you've cracked the structure of the animation - have you? I rather like the idea of being able to have an own-brand animation, like you could with '9x startup; that used palette switching, and some rather beautiful startup animations were created for it. (Not by me! Well beyond my artistic abilities.) [I vaguely remember something for XP as well, but I think it was more or less limited to the progress-bar type animation, plus being able to change a static background image.] If you want custom animations/text, this says it will do it (I haven't tested it): http://www.techanger.com/change-windows-7-boot-screen/ Have fun :-) -- SC Tom |
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In message , SC Tom writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... In the "Win7 won't boot from seat dock" thread, Paul said (Windows 7 has the canned "juggler balls" animation, while Win8/Win10 are the "ferris wheel balls". On Windows 7, there's actually a file with a frame by frame animation stored in a "very tall" image file.) That sounds like you've cracked the structure of the animation - have you? I rather like the idea of being able to have an own-brand animation, like you could with '9x startup; that used palette switching, and some rather beautiful startup animations were created for it. (Not by me! Well beyond my artistic abilities.) [I vaguely remember something for XP as well, but I think it was more or less limited to the progress-bar type animation, plus being able to change a static background image.] If you want custom animations/text, this says it will do it (I haven't tested it): http://www.techanger.com/change-windows-7-boot-screen/ Have fun :-) Thanks. I've now wasted a few hours looking at all the samples people have made! [Well, not all of them; it's one of those irritating pages that, when you get near the bottom, loads some more.] Looks dangerous, so I'll probably wait until next time I do a system image before trying it out. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf [What's your guilty pleasure?] Why should you feel guilty about pleasure? - Michel Roux Jr in Radio Times 2-8 February 2013 |
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