Two quick questions:

1. How do I change the boot screen background colour on NT4 (the one which shows the OS ver, Processor type and amount of RAM) from the painfully bright blue to black? Is a registry hack involved or would I have to use resource hacker?

2. How do I change the Windows NT flag logo wallpaper on the initial login screen (the one with the desktop green background) to a picture of my choosing?

I know the file used is C:\WINNT\winnt256.bmp and the registry value is HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\ContolPanel\Desktop\[Wallpaper: REG_STRING]

but when I save a file in .bmp format in the Windows dir ie 'Wallpaper1.bmp' and edit the registry value accordingly to 'C:\WINNT\Wallpaper1.bmp' it still doesn't show.

Aside saving the picture in Windows .bmp format with runlength encoding, are there any other limitations ie size or colour depth that need to be set?

"Two quick questions:

1. How do I change the boot screen background colour on NT4 (the one which shows the OS ver, Processor type and amount of RAM) from the painfully bright blue to black? Is a registry hack involved or would I have to use resource hacker?"

This I don't think can be done... most resource hack type programs won't work on NT based Os' "Native Mode" operating code since its not in Win32 PE (portable executeable) format afaik, & uses native NT (VMS derived) function calls & its OWN, distinct & separate API.

I could be wrong, but I think not on this one...

"2. How do I change the Windows NT flag logo wallpaper on the initial login screen (the one with the desktop green background) to a picture of my choosing?"

Now, this is pretty easily doable!

"I know the file used is C:\WINNT\winnt256.bmp and the registry value is HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\ContolPanel\Desktop\[Wallpaper: REG_STRING]

but when I save a file in .bmp format in the Windows dir ie 'Wallpaper1.bmp' and edit the registry value accordingly to 'C:\WINNT\Wallpaper1.bmp' it still doesn't show."

Want a QUICK hack for it? Replace the one you have now with one of your choosing (backup the original first though by renaming it etc. for example) & then overwrite it & rename it same name with one of your OWN choosing.

"Aside saving the picture in Windows .bmp format with runlength encoding, are there any other limitations ie size or colour depth that need to be set?"

This I think you may have hit on something (ringing a bell here)... I have done that here & have changed the default initial color to black for the background with this:

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors]
"Background"="0 0 0"

&

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop wallpaper value

& also my login/logout wallpaper to my own "APKNTClouds.bmp" file...

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop on the WALLPAPER entry I put mine in here as well... I THINK that is what did it for me for logon/logoff wallpaper being same as desktop one.



APK

I will try the wallpaper reg hack you suggested.

But I'm sure the boot screen colour is changeable (as it is black on some of the NT workstations in the uni library).

"I will try the wallpaper reg hack you suggested.

But I'm sure the boot screen colour is changeable (as it is black on some of the NT workstations in the uni library)."

Aha, really?

* Well, if you get the hack?? TURN US ALL ONTO THAT ONE!



(Be neat to see, more "unix-like" or "dos-like" @ bootup...)

APK

P.S.=> I know you can make the startup more "verbose" showing ALL the drivers loading in boot.ini by utilizing the /SOS switch, but this color change part's a new one on me... & that's why I hit forums, to learn tricks/tips/techniques etc. apk

But I'm sure the boot screen colour is changeable (as it is black on some of the NT workstations in the uni library


I myself am curious about this, as I have not come across this .... sounds like the video driver isnt properly initialized ......

That screen has always been blue for me since SP2 .... pass the word if you come across the answer

Well I'm sure the video drivers are working properly on them as they load up properly in 800x600x16 ... surely if it wasn't then they would crash on boot or revert to vga mode.

And I'm not sure how I'm supposed to find out this little black screen trick either...

*wanders up to the student support desk*
"Er excuse me, I just noticed that some of your workstations over there in the corner appear to boot up with a black screen rather than the default blue one... Nice trick care to tell me how it's done?"

"*wanders up to the student support desk*
"Er excuse me, I just noticed that some of your workstations over there in the corner appear to boot up with a black screen rather than the default blue one... Nice trick care to tell me how it's done?" "

Um well er I'll have to ask my supervisor. If you need to do photocopying you can go into room 1.303. The public access lab is in 1.403 but you'll need to swipe your student card.

I've seen that in SAFE MODE bootups... you sure those are not set for that by default for some reason?

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APK

it's changable.. download x-setup... all the reg hacks you can get in windows all in one easy to use gui interface...

www.xteq.com