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Re: Bypassing the Windows title screen

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From: Joseph Geniec
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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From: jgeniec@lilac.cis.ohio-state.edu (Joseph Geniec)
Subject: Re: Bypassing the Windows title screen
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