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If you ever get tired of the Windows boot screen logo, then you might want to change it.

The most easiest way to do so is to download a program called
BootSkin (943.16 kB)
You can choose to use the range of cool preinstalled
boot screens provided or even create your own by going to the Help Section.

Create your own boot screen

Keep in mind that your image must be max 640 x 480 pixels and it must also be saved as a 16 color bitmap (.bmp extension).

1. Create your backround image file.

2. Create your progress bar image file.

3. After creating your boot image you have to create a new folder under the setup folder(under Skins directory) naming it as you want to, lets name it hacks.info.

4. Under that folder put the boot image and the progress bar image you created, also put a copy of bootskin.ini (you can take it from an other skin and copy it or just use ours)

5. Edit bootskin.ini as shown below:

[BootSkin]

Type=0

Name = "hacks-info"

Author = "Hacks.info"

Description = "Hacks.info boot screen"

ProgressBar=hacks-progress.bmp

ProgressBarX = 508

ProgressBarY = 12

ProgressBarWidth = 118

Screen=hacks-backround.bmp

Now we are going to explain each setting so that you can change it to what you want.

Name:
here you just put the name you want to have for this boot screen pack, within quotation marks.

Author:
enter your name so you can get any credits if other people use this boot screen pack, within quotation marks.

Description:
Here you can put the description for your boot screen pack, within quotation marks.

ProgressBar
Paste the filename of your boot screen progress bar.

ProgressBarX
This is the absolute left edge of the bar. Use your source image to work out the location. 

ProgressBarY
This is the vertical coordinate of the top left of the progress bar on the screen.

ProgressBarWidth
This is how wide you want the progress bar to be. Keep in mind that once it has moved across the width of the progress bar you have specified here the progress bar will start again from the left edge of the progress bar.

Screen
This is the filename of your boot screen backround image.

6. Since you are done save the file and open BootSkin program.

7. Find your new bootskin from the list and load it.

8. Click the apply button so that next time you start your pc you can see it loading as your boot screen image.

If you want to share this BootScreen pack then just select File .--> Export Selected Skin to File and select a name for your file and a location to save it to. When finished you ll have a .bootskin file that you can share with your friends.

If you experience any problems follow the following steps to disable bootskin:

1. you need to go restart your computer and then press F8

2. use your arrow keys to go to safe mode with networking or just safe mode

3. then once it loads press ctrl, alt,del and type your username and password

4. click bootskin shortcut on desktop

5. disable bootskin and restart computer

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