Saturday 15 October 2011

Create and change boot screens for windows xp with booteditor


Create and change boot screens for windows xp with booteditor

The boot editor is a It's an editor for modify or creating boot screens in WinXP (Pro or Home edition)

The Boot Editor, he doesn't come with installer, then you will have to install  manually, choice a paste of your preference. After unzip, copy the files with extension ocx and dll for the directory c:\windows\system32 and run the command regsvr32 AxImage.ocx, create a shortcut for the booteditor in the desktop.

Before playing, make a backup of the file c:\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe. If something gives wrong, it is enough you to copy this file of turn to your original place.

1) executes the program clicking in BootEditor.exe.
2)Goin it Cribs new bootscreen (Ctrl + N), in the close it places the name for your boot screen, ready the program will carry the images standard of Windows. Click below in the image to visualize the main screen of the booteditor. Click in the image to enlarge.


3)Click in Load image to change the image of the main screen, choose an image of the file (the image pattern is of 640x480 and 16 colors), but the program accepts images in several formats, size and quality of different color. Remind of Dll and OCX, in the paste system32, is for color quality, the booteditor go to ask if it wants to correct that. Answer that yes.


The interesting is to set up an image publishing in some of images as the photoshop, and to save in the size of 640x480. Ready the main screen will change for chosen image.

4)Change for next image to be modified, (progress bar) as display the illustration below, #8 version Pro  #9 version Home of Windows xp,  the size of the bar of progress is of 22 x9 pixels and it has the format of three square, the advisable it is just to change the colors of that progress bar. To move the bar in the vertical it marks the option it Moves pr. bar, to encourage the bar click in anim in the status bar. it only works in the screen main #1. To move the bar in the screen it clicks and drag below or above.


To use boot maid's screen it has two way to do one it is with the own booteditor. Open the program it selects a boot screen and then click in test. Restart the personal computer to see if it worked.

Another way of her to do it is using another program the logonuibootrandomizer, that also allows to change logon screens besides boot screens. any hour I will post a tutorial on him.

Clicking in the menu bitmap show images effects dialog CTRL+F you will have some options to give some effects in your image. With the time it catches the practice.