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Article #1602Re: Bypassing the Windows title screen
From: Joseph Geniec
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:17
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:17
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To bypass the windows opening screen: 1) create a new screen in .bmp format in windows paintbrush, or just create a black one if you don't want to see any screen at all. 2) Get a program to convert it to RLE format with compression 4. 3) get out of windows. 4) go to the windows\system folder, make a backup copy of vgalogo.rle, and rename your picture to vgalogo.rle. 5) run windows setup from DOS. 6) Change a driver or something in setup. (You simply have to run setup because the picture is actually a part of WIN.COM. When setup is run, the new WIN.COM is created with your picture) 7) run windows. Make sure that the picture you create is no bigger than a regular EGA screen, and it has no more than 16 colors. Also, if you happen to be changing a font driver, make sure that there is not another vgalogo.rle on that disk/directory. And, if you screw it up, you always have a backup of the picture. Good Luck, J.G.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!The-Star.honeywell.com!umn.edu!paperboy.micro.umn.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!lilac.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgeniec From: jgeniec@lilac.cis.ohio-state.edu (Joseph Geniec) Subject: Re: Bypassing the Windows title screen Message-ID: <1992Oct14.191724.22813@cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@cis.ohio-state.edu (NETnews ) Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science References: <TROYB.92Oct14091006@ivy.stat.ufl.edu> Distribution: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:17:24 GMT Lines: 24