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Changing your Startup
and Shutdown Screens

by Joe Robson

It may pay you to print this out, to follow it better.

It doesn't matter what feature of Windows you talk about, somebody has figured out how to change it. Make it yellow instead of blue. Or big instead of small. Remove parts, rearrange others, or modify something else.

Where do you start? Well, there's probably an easier place to begin, but I'm choosing to start with what you see when you hit the power button on your PC.

OK, let's start at the beginning. Tired of seeing the same old startup and shutdown screens? You can create a new one by convert an existing image into a Logo file for display on startup or shutdown. Here's how ...

1. Rename your existing file so it doesn't get overwritten (I'm talking about the logo.sys file).

2. Launch the Paint program (Start, Programs, Accessories, Paint).

3. Select File, Open (or press Ctrl+O) to see the Open dialog box, and select the file you want to work with, then click Open.

4. Select Image, Attributes (or press Ctrl+E) to show the Attributes dialog box. Note the current width and height values, then click OK.

5. Adjust the width of the image to 320 pixels by selecting Image, Stretch/Skew (or press Ctrl+W), enter an approximate percentage in the Stretch group's Horizontal text box, and click OK.

6. Do the same for the Vertical text box as you did in the step above.

7. Select Image, Attributes (Ctrl+E) to confirm the size. If you're just a few pixels off from 320 by 400, type those values in and click OK.

8. Use the Paint tools to add to or modify the image if you want.

9. Select File, Save (Ctrl+S) to save the file into the same folder and with the same name as the logo file you want to replace.

Recap: You can customize the startup and shutdown bitmaps. Use Paint to create or modify images. Size must be 320x400 pixels. Save them as C:\Logo.sys for the startup bitmap, C:\Windows\Logow.sys for the Windows is shutting down bitmap, and C:\Windows\Logos.sys for the 'It's now safe to turn off your computer' bitmap.

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