Customising the NT4 boot screen and logon logo...
Posted by Curley_Boy

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?


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