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The Art of Making BootSkins

... or my version of it!

By: _Martin_
Posted: Monday, December 01, 2003 on martin
Discussion: OS Customization

The Art of Making BootSkins

BootSkins are certainly the skinning fashion of the moment. These are replacements for the screen that is displayed when Windows is loading.

Previously, replacing these screens had been a somewhat risky affair involving hacking your Windows application to pieces, but now BootSkin (http://www.bootskin.com/) allows you to replace the screen without risking damage to your Windows installation under Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

The software allows you to apply one of the default skins or one downloaded from WinCustomize (http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=32), but how do you create one of your own?

Well, it’s actually really easy. All that are required are 2 images and one configuration file. The first thing to do is to design how you want your skin to look when it’s completed.

This is my image as I want it to look. It’s just a tweak of the standard look. What you need to bear in mind currently is that BootSkin only works with 16 color images. There are plans to change this in the future to allow more colors but we must work with what’s available at the moment so keep your image simple.

The two images are the background and the progress bar. The background incorporates everything you see above apart from the blue progress bar in the top right. The box surrounding the progress bar is an optional part of the background image.

A lot of image programs claim to produce 4-bit (16 color) bitmaps but often the format is not quite right without knowing your image editing software well. What is fortunate here is that another Stardock program can help.

SkinStudio (http://www.stardock.com/products/SkinStudio/) is mainly a tool for creating WindowBlinds and other skins but it has a useful tool built in that can help. If you select Tools … Bootskin … Prepare Image from the menu you will launch a little utility specifically for this purpose.

If you “browse” for your image you can load it into the utility.

You should then check the “Dither” option and experiment with the different Resampling and Dithering types to find the closest 16 color representation of your original image. You can then press “Save” and save your background image.

You can then move on to prepare the progress bar. The best way to do this is to start with an existing image to tweak. Basically however, in the BootSkin, you will eventually specify how much space the progress bar will take up and then this progress bar you create will be animated as Windows loads to fill this space.

Here we are using a simple image, which also uses the same 16 color palette as the background.

OK, so on to creating the actual BootSkin.

Under the directory where you installed BootSkin there is a Skins directory. Within this directory there will be a series of folders for each BootSkin installed. To add your skin, create a subdirectory with the name of your skin. I’m creating a directory called StardockEdition. Within that folder I’m going to place my two image files and a copy of an existing bootskin.ini file from one of the other folders.

We’re almost there now. We’ve done the hard work in creating the images. Now, we just need to change the .ini file to tell BootSkin how to use these images. Lets take a look at that file now.

[BootSkin]

Type=0

Name = "XXXXXXXXXXXX"

Author = "XXXXXXXXXXXX"

Description = "XXXXXXXXXXXX"

ProgressBar=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.bmp

ProgressBarX = XXX

ProgressBarY = XXX

ProgressBarWidth = XXX

Screen=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.bmp

Note that I’ve replaced context with a series of XXXXXs. These are the areas you need to change.

Name

Here, simply enter the name of the BootSkin you have created within quotation marks.

e.g. Name = "Windows Stardock Edition"

Author

Here, enter your own name so you can get the credit owed for your wonderful skin within quotation marks.

e.g. Author = "_Martin_"

Description

Enter some information about the skin you have created, again within quotation marks.

e.g. Description = "A simple twist on the standard login to give credit to Stardock’s wonderful software"

Progress Bar

Here, you need to enter the name of the bitmap file you are using for your progress bar.

e.g. ProgressBar=StardockEditionProgress.bmp

ProgressBarX

You need to work our where you are placing the progress bar on the screen. This represents the absolute left edge of the bar. You can use your source image to work out the location.

e.g. ProgressBarX = 508

ProgressBarY

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

e.g. ProgressBarY = 12

ProgressBarWidth

This is how wide you want the progress bar to be. As Windows loads, the Progress bar image that you specified will be moved across this area. 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.

e.g. ProgressBarWidth = 118

Screen

Here, you need to enter the name of the bitmap file you are using for your background.

e.g. Screen=StardockEditionBack.bmp

OK, so here’s the final version of the bootskin.ini file:

[BootSkin]

Type=0

Name = "Windows Stardock Edition"

Author = "_Martin_"

Description = "A simple twist on the standard login to give credit to Stardock’s wonderful software"

ProgressBar=StardockEditionProgress.bmp

ProgressBarX = 508

ProgressBarY = 12

ProgressBarWidth = 118

Screen=StardockEditionBack.bmp

Now that you have edited the file, save it.

If you load BootSkin now, you can see you skin in the list.

Click the Apply button and your skin will be shown the next time that Windows restarts.

The final thing you can do is to share your BootSkin with others. To do this, select your skin, and select File … Export Selected Skin to File. Then, select a name for your file and a location to save it to. You will then have a .bootskin file that you can share with other BootSkin users. Why not upload it to WinCustomize for others to comment on?

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Reply By: webmastah | Posted: Monday, December 01, 2003
um, oh yeah, how do i post news here??????? im totally lost. :(
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Reply By: yardguard(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, January 24, 2004

I love it when a Stardock product get's knocked around for not performing well.

As someone said earlier, this tutorial is lacking a lot of pertinent information.

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Reply By: Munk(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, January 25, 2004

Maybe I can help clear a couple things up for a few people. Firstly, the resolution for the XP boot screen must be 640x480, 16 color. The most common problems are caused by some people misunderstanding the "16 color" for "16 bit color", or assuming the requirements to be the same as previous versions of Windows, which made use of 256 color images. Make sure it is only 4 bit, or 16 colors. The first attempt I made at setting a bootskin was using the "Computer City" which I found for download. When I applied it and restarted, I got the same symptom several of you did - instead of the desired picture, it used the standard XP image, although the progress bar was gone, and the color palette was clearly wrong. I opened the background picture for the bootskin, "ccback.bmp", and found that it was saved with 256 colors, not the required 16. After converting it to 16 color with Paint Shop Pro (which I recommend to anyone), the bootskin worked just fine.

The largest reason that tinkering with boot skins in XP can be dangerous, is because XP no longer keeps the boot screens as separate image files, like previous versions of Windows. (Windows 95/98 kept the bitmap images saved as "logo.sys, logow.sys, and logos.sys") Windows XP has the startup pictures actually embedded into the "NTOSKRNL.EXE" kernel executable file as application resources. To change the boot screens manually, you'd actually have to replace this file with a hacked version that included the images you want. I guess that's what amazes me - that this proggie actually works when done right. If it's doing it safely, exactly how is it changing something that's inherantly built right into the OS?

Just my few cents worth
Munk

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Reply By: DigitalCHET(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, January 27, 2004

I found that when I use SkinStudio to prepare an image for a bootskin it won't save the files normally but when I select the same file i'm editing it will overwrite it in its proper format so what I do (step by step) is create an image, export it twice as a 24bit bitmap and open one of them up in SkinStudio for preparation, after I've set the proper settings I hit the save button and in the save dialog I overwrite the same file I'm editing. This process seems to work properly without any problems.

I still wonder why it only works like that though... :P

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Reply By: KaSpeR(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2004
this is real hard but ok
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Reply By: zeeshan(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, January 22, 2004
plz send me reply
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Reply By: qwerty(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, January 21, 2004
I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM! SKIN STUDIO FREE WONT SAVE THE FREAKING IMAGE!
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Reply By: mightymouse(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Seem's im not the only one that can't get this bloody thing to save. So much for making Boot Skins.
Any ideas?????

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Reply By: alexela(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, January 16, 2004

what about windows 2003 server?
after i install boot... it loads then it stack! i can't do anything... !? is there some solves?

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Reply By: mikemischler(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, February 15, 2004
i tried to make a boot skin, when i restart it loads fine and my skin shows up, thenn the progress bar shows up and my colors get funky, but everything still loads. can anyone help me?!?!
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Reply By: Steely^^(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, February 15, 2004

hi there!
can anyone help me?
i have troubles making my own bootscreen because everytime i look at the preview of it, the loading bar doesn't appear, is my bitmap file for the loding thingy that shall move from right to left too big or what could be the problem?
please help me

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Reply By: ikram(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, February 16, 2004
how i can make my own boot skin please sugest me
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Reply By: Shobair (Anonymous User) (Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, February 22, 2004
very beautiful software, small but smart.
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Reply By: Mo'fire (Anonymous User) (Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, February 23, 2004

Disregard above post,
To make the progress bar work
it must contain only colours that are in your bootskin

Hope this helps people :)

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Reply By: Mo'fire (Anonymous User) (Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, February 23, 2004

If you have a look at the skins that came with Bootskin
you will see that some have progress bars and some dont.
Ive been having problems getting my bootscreen colour to display properly when it boots.
So I removed the progress bar and copied the config of a skin with no progress bar.
I booted my pc and it displayed the image correct.
I believe its the progress bar that has caused the colour issues
My original progress bar is 4bit 16 colour 99dpi, The same as my bootscreen.
If anyone has created a successfully working bootscreen with progress bar
Please tell me how.
Thankyou :)

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Reply By: http://www.joeuser.com/info.asp?id=0 | Posted: Saturday, February 21, 2004

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Reply By: Aloha De Chocobo(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, February 06, 2004
hmm ... ived already use the same color palette but it seems the problem still there ... the color is better but the progress bar there ... seems still have the problem like a incomplete overlay ..
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Reply By: Elcapeton(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, February 06, 2004
Question....I have followed the steps and when viewing in the bootskin program it looks exactly how I made it, but when I apply and reboot it just changed the defaul bootskin to a different color and moved the progress bar to where I wanted it. The background I choose never came up...I've tried this for several different pics and all the same thing. Any ideas?
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Reply By: DRACON-F(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, February 07, 2004
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Reply By: Aloha De Chocobo(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, February 04, 2004
how big the progress bar should be ... is that must be 22x9 pixels? coz i have a problem i made a bootscreen and its fine but when i add the progress bar the color chaged when restart boc .. but it show perfect in the preview in the BootSkin software ... im already using 16 colors ...
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Reply By: Aquarius-Dal(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, February 05, 2004

JPP, I think editing an existing (working) .ini file from boot skin directory is safer. You mentioned “renamed the ini file to a .bootskin” I hope you didn’t mean naming the file xxxx.bootskin:-) All the .ini files should be named “bootskin.ini”. If you did it right and the folder is said to be corrupted, try creating a new one.

Hi De Chocobo. Your bar size is correct so the problem might not be it. As I mentioned in an earlier post, make sure you use “the same color pallet” for both your skin and your progress bar. One important thing to note is that the preview in Bootskin software does not show you how your skin is going to come up, if you did something wrong.

I'm not sure if it helps...

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Reply By: fred(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2004

how can this program to run unattended to change the logo screen ?

thanks

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Reply By: JPP(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, February 04, 2004

Hello:

I don't know if any one had troubles or not... I am blue in the face making this thing.... I made a 8bit bmp and followed the directions to a tea with the note pad in
creating the ini file.... Then renamed the ini file to a .bootskin .... Then try exporting the thing into BootSkin all I get it is this error. Stating --- There Was An Error
Importing The Skin File. Possible causes are a corrupt skin file, or read-only skin directory.

What in the H _ _ L I am I doing wrong? Plese reply.

Thank You
JPP

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Reply By: Aquarius_Dal(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, February 04, 2004

Yes!!! I got it right. It took me all day to figure out but finally…
The problem with the colors of boot screen showing up incorrectly even though 4bit color is used is that the combine colors of boot screen + progress bar exceeded 16. If you use Photoshop, open your finished boot screen and go to Image>Mode>ColorTable and you’ll see the 16 colors of your boot screen. In Paint shop pro and Foto canvas the color table is called color pallet. Now, the color table of your boot screen must be identical to the color table of your progress bar. If, say, one of the colors is not the same, the combine colors will be 17 instead of 16 and windows will try to render weird colors.
So what I did was I made the boot screen first, convert it down to 16 colors, and then made the progress bar with colors within the range of the boot screen’s color table/pallet.

The colors should be 16, any 16. So the less variety of colors you use (the closer the image to being monochromatic), the more realism you’ll get for your boot screen. Because- E.g. In a black and white image, all 16 colors are used to render tone, shade, light, darkness, etc… but in a more colorful image, 16 is not enough for rendering all those.
Oh… and by the way I didn’t use the skin studio because its dithering features are not good. I hope that the team will improve it in the later versions.

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Reply By: Aquarius-Dal(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, February 08, 2004
Sadly, I stopped using bootscreen because my computer doesn't resume hibernation while using it :(
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Reply By: warnut(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, February 08, 2004
when i have download a file to have a my boot skin how do i use it/open it. this is my first time use
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Reply By: hossein(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, February 08, 2004

I love stardock software

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Reply By: CoolguySaul(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, May 27, 2004
i cant get a costimized image to work with bootskin!!!
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Reply By: Hornet141 | Posted: Friday, May 28, 2004
Well, if anyoen can help me here, my custom skin will not work. I followed all instructions and went 16 colors and it shows up for a split second and then the screen turns green until it loads to the Windows log-in screen. I have tried downgrading my BootSkin version but it still doesn't work, all the other skins that I have work except the one I made. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Reply By: Dark_Nite(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Hey there, i have made a bootskin of mine...

in that bootskin i kept my picture and saved it as "darkboot.bmp" in 16bit after that i loaded into bootskin and activated it..
after restarting the computer my bootskin doesnt see but my windows Xp bootskin changes into white and logo becomes pink,green colour
and i cant see my bootskin what is the problem,.... please reply me its urgent

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Reply By: skibknyc | Posted: Wednesday, May 26, 2004
need help. I installed bootskin and for some reason, it does not work. can you help me resolve this issue?
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Reply By: helper object(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, May 24, 2004
if u r stuck because of this i have very simple solution which worked in my case . simply press f8 during initial 2 seconds of xp booting . start xp in safe mode and then after logging in run bootskin in normal way and then go to top of it and select windows normal botscreen. it should work. and one more thing. anybody knopws here bootskin is freeware. stardock give nothin as freeware until and unless the program has serious problems in it so beware of more stardock's freewares and even of it's trial products. they suck. and in contrast all the original registred versions work like a charm but u have to give the programs a special update;)
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Reply By: helper object(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, May 24, 2004
if u r stuck because of this i have very simple solution which worked in my case . simply press f8 during initial 2 seconds of xp booting . start xp in safe mode and then after logging in run bootskin in normal way and then go to top of it and select windows normal botscreen. it should work. and one more thing. anybody knopws here bootskin is freeware. stardock give nothin as freeware until and unless the program has serious problems in it so beware of more stardock's freewares and even of it's trial products. they suck. and in contrast all the original registred versions work like a charm but u have to give the programs a special update;)
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Reply By: helper object(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, May 24, 2004
if u r stuck because of this i have very simple solution which worked in my case . simply press f8 during initial 2 seconds of xp booting . start xp in safe mode and then after logging in run bootskin in normal way and then go to top of it and select windows normal botscreen. it should work
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Reply By: anil(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, April 07, 2004

in great trouble

i am able to convert the images into 4 bit images using ulead photoimpact,without progress bar skin works really fine but when progress bar is added it doesnot works(though it is converted to 4bit image) why it is so & how should i match the color palette so that the skins can be made work

can any body help regarding this please f1.......................

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Reply By: Frank Brower(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, April 07, 2004

To answer your question Anil, if you are using Paint Shop Pro, load up the background image that has already been converted to 16 colors. Save the color palette, then open up the Progress Bar Image and load the previously saved Palette, then re-save the new image. You should be able to do the same with other graphics programs as well.
Also, with the latest version of Bootskin v1.03b, it now works fine with Windows 2000 without any problems. Looks like they fixed the problem. Still could use a feature to help create the skins, like LogonStudio does.

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Reply By: insaneryder(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, April 08, 2004

when u download skins how do u put them on to bootskin someone help.

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Reply By: Vegeta(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, April 08, 2004

insaneryder, This is how you import skins onto BookSkin:

First, download a skin, which you probably already did.

Second, open up BookSkin, then go to File -> Import from file..., then select the skin(The skin must have a .bootskin extention), then click 'Open'.

Third, go to where the bootskin is and click on it, and then click 'Apply'. The bootskin will now be active and will load on the next restart.

*Note: On some computers or most, you can just locate the .bootskin file, and click on it, by doing so, will automatically load a .bootskin file onto BootSkin.*

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Reply By: Vegeta(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, April 09, 2004

Cristian Enrique Trejo Castillo, this is how you edit an already made bootskin:

Firstly, if you don't have 'Extentions' enabled, open up Windows Explorer, then Tools -> Folder Options -> View, then go down to where it says 'Hide extentions for known file types', and uncheck it, so that there's no checkmark on it. This will make known file types have extentions, like .bootskin.

Second, go to the .bootskin you want to edit, then click on it, make sure it's highlighted where you can edit the name(Make sure you click on the name, not the icon), and rename it to whatever.zip. This will allow you to extract the content of the file.

Third, right-click and extract. Open up the folder, and there you have it.

The images/bootskin.ini file. All you need to do now is open up whatever image there is with Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro and edit whatever part of the image you want.

Then all there is left to do is:

Click on the first file, then press the 'Shift' key, and click on the last file. This will highlight all files. Right-click on one file(Don't left-click a file or else the highlighting will be undoed), and then click 'Add to "file.zip", and then the zip will be made again.

After that, click on the name of the file again, and change .zip to .bootskin.

Once that's done, either click on it to see if it's imports itself to BootSkin, or open up BootSkin, and go to File -> Import from file... and select the .bootskin you just edited, and click Open. Once this is all done, the bootskin should be listed.

Hope this helps, and please tell me if this doesn't work, but it should.

*Note: You must have zipping software installed. I recommend using WinRAR.*

*A side note: If you edit an already made bootskin, give credit to the person who actually made it, if you put it on a website or something.*

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Reply By: Vegeta(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, April 09, 2004

Chaos Control,

I highly recommend using Adobe Photoshop. You can download a trial version of Photoshop at www.adobe.com. Another good one(Not as good as Photoshop though, hehe) is Paint Shop Pro.

There's tutorials out there that can teach you how to manipulate images or make cool wallpapers, etc... a good site is good-tutorials.com.

Just mess around with Photoshop to see what you can come up with.

Hope that helps.

*Just read what Martin says to do in order to create bootskins, after you've made you're images*

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Reply By: Cristian Enrique Trejo Castillo(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, April 09, 2004

Hi!.
good job man

i was wondering how can i edit an existing "Bootskin"????? please i like a skin but i want to edit it it is only for my own use.

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Reply By: Chaos Control(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, April 09, 2004
How do i create my own images,witch program should i use?
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Reply By: №эїН(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, April 04, 2004
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Reply By: beng(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, April 04, 2004
ok thanks for the program
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Reply By: Ana(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, April 04, 2004

REALLY COOL
10X A LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT Martin keep it up man!... U rock1.. =)
Come to Portugal!.. It's grea in here1..=)
******

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Reply By: ChrisNYC(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, April 03, 2004

If you're looking for a graphical tool to make the bootskin ini's and position the progress bar and animation, check out the tool I'm working on: http://www.chrisnyc.com/downloads.php?action=show&id=26
Let me know if you find any bugs, or have any features you want me to add. I hope it helps.

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Reply By: Vegeta(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, April 06, 2004

Duckie, do exactly what Martin said to do when creating a Bootskin. After everything is done, and once the bootskin shows up in the BootSkin program, click on you're bootskin, then go to File -> Export selected skin to file... and just choose a filename, and click Save. After that's done, you're bootskin has been created into a .bootskin file.

Is that what you wanted to know? If not, sorry. :)

Anyways, I have a question of my own:

For some strange reason, the bootskin shows up in the BootSkin program, but when I click 'Apply', it says 'Active', and when I restart my computer, it shows up, bit REALLY dark, you can barely see it, and the Progress Bar doesn't animate at all, then Windows loads as normal, but the bootskin doesn't work.

But, actually, when I took out the progress bar and just had the background image itself without the progress bar, it worked fine, the bootskin did show up after a restart.

So, the progress bar is making the bootskin not show up entirely for some reason. Anyone know why?

Do I have to load the progressbar.bmp into SkinStudio or something, so that the progressbar.bmp gets the right colors palette of 16 colors or whatever?

What do I have to do to fix this?

Please reply. Thank you.

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Reply By: Vegeta(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, April 06, 2004

!!!Update!!!

Well, finally, my bootskin loaded when I restarted. The progress bar was the cause of it not working before, because I guess it was saved as a 24 bit or 32 bit, when it needed to be saved as a 16 bit.

So, what I did was, I actually opened up the progressbar.bmp into MS Paint, then saved as a 16 bit image, and it worked!

But, one thing occured though, when the bootskin loaded when Windows restarted, the progress bar did animate and everything, but one thing happened, there was a white trail left behind the animating progress bar for some reason. Little squared, smaller then the squared progress bar. I have no idea why that happened. Does anyone else know why this happened?

Thanks.

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Reply By: Duckie(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, April 05, 2004
Hey Just a question i hope all of you will benifit from: How do i import the .ini file for it to show up in Bootskin ? It doesn't automatically and when i try importing it seems to want a .bootskin file any ideas ?
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Reply By: crazy(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, April 05, 2004
Everything is working fine in this program! A LOT OF THANKS!:)
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Reply By: SkinStudio.Professional(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, April 11, 2004
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Reply By: ANIL(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2004

FRANK BROWER

You told me to use paint shop pro to convert the image [16 colors]i did but again same problem i.e without progressbar skin works fine but with progress bar it is not working ,but it works in bootskin program.

Actualy what should I do please guide me regarding this please

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Reply By: Frank Brower(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Use Paint Shop pro to convert it to 16 colors, but I also said, or someone else stated that the progressbar and background file MUST be the same color palette. Do this by loading the background image, and saving the color palette, then load the progress bar image, and loading the color palette you just saved before. Once done, all should work. I did have some problems with some images that when converted with PSP to 16 colors, they did work, but the colors didn't show up as expected. I used FotoCanvas by ACD Systems for these. As I said, this was only for a couple images.
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Reply By: David(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, April 15, 2004
this is amazing i want to create something like that.......
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Reply By: Someone(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, April 15, 2004
It doesn`t worked!!!!!!!!!
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Reply By: Julius(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, March 08, 2004
I think Bootskin is a great app, I don't have to do anymore hacking of the kernel file. I created a boot up screen and it looks great, the only problem I have is that the progress bar area turns black covering the image behind it; the progress slider still functions and moves ontop of it though. Anyone else have this prob? I was also wondering is this is because there's a size limit for the progress bar? Thanks.
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Reply By: eduardo(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, March 10, 2004
como descargar este programa
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Reply By: Nesseight(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, March 16, 2004

It seems the majority of users here have problems making a working boot screen, whoever made this info needs to post some details so people don't have to speculate about what makes a proper boot screen? I am guessing that the loading screens use 16 color "Windows .bmp" bitmaps with no kind of RLE compression, and that the background image MUST be 640px x 480px with a progress bar that's 22px x 9px, both having the exact same color table/pallet (which you are allowed to create) with all the colors in the table in the exact same location. (I would assume it's like trying to make a full color spray for Counter-Strike (particularly with "colorspr"), but with 16 colors instead of 256, and no need for the last color in the table to be #0000FF).

That's just what I am assuming from reading all this, I am interested in creating my own boot logo that actually looks good with a 16 color limit, but I don't want to use stupid little programs that don't let you save your work or that display a bunch of ads or that save files that make WindowsXP unbootable, really after reading all this I am contemplating "hacking that .exe" as someone above mentioned, Windowblinds has improved since I first used it 3 or 4 years ago, (probably because I have an operating system that supports skins natively, even if Micro$oft decided that their three skins are all that people would ever need), but after wasting 20 minutes reading this entire page I think I will either find a tutorial from google.com (or perhaps a site that google will link to ;- ) that explains how to do this manually, or I will try "BootXP" that someone above mentioned as it seems that unlike Windowblinds, Bootskin should still be considered beta and unstable, rather than a bogushit guarantee that it's safe.

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Reply By: rg(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, March 12, 2004
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Reply By: 12qw(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, March 12, 2004
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Reply By: lokkie | Posted: Saturday, June 19, 2004
Just to let people kno...i keep reading it.....the reason why there is not a 32bit boot screen is cause no video drivers are loaded till after the boot screen, so there is no colour but 16bit at this time...so unless computers start with 32bit it wont be possible.....BUT HEll YEAH THIS SOFTWARE IS A GOD SEND.....WELL DONE...... KrIpTic l33t haxor
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Reply By: Henry J(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2004
I made the skin by following the instruction(a screen 4-bit bmp, a progress bar 4-bit bmp, a .ini file), and it works correctly in bootskin "preview", but when I applied it and restart my computer, a problem occurs. The bootscreen displays my picture but in an incorrect color(the background color of my picture should be white, but it was changed into green). After I canceled the use of progress bar, bootscreen could display it correctly. That means it works incorrect with adding a progress bar in it. Could somebody tell me what the problem is? Thanks a lot!
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Reply By: lantere(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, June 14, 2004
If you people still have problems with your bootskin colours, try saving the picture as a grayscale image. Don't use a progress bar. That fixed my weird colours.
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Reply By: miskalin(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, June 30, 2004
What file or Files in "C:\Windows\...." this programm CHANGED???
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Reply By: Butcher(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, June 25, 2004
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Reply By: nope(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, July 04, 2004

damnit
my computer doesn't want to restart, what do i have to do!!!!!

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Reply By: me(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, July 05, 2004
i have imported a boot screen i downloaded and i can't select it as my boot screen
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Reply By: dai(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, June 01, 2004
I think you may use xPadie for making 16 color images instead of SkinStudio. It's a great tool!
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Reply By: Dariusz(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, May 31, 2004
koko
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Reply By: Jester(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, June 01, 2004
I tried making my own custom bootskin using the "toon" thing as a template, but now when i turn my PC on I get the original toon picture with the eyes and then my PC restarts. The first time i turned it on i got an error with services.exe and one other app, but that's not happening anymore. I need my computer back b/c i have work due and the semester is done in 1.5 weeks! HELP!
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Reply By: inkhan(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, June 10, 2004
i want to make my own boot skin
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Reply By: MarcYes(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, June 06, 2004
comment faire
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Reply By: RobertRogac | Posted: Saturday, June 05, 2004
An excellent document which clearly explains the process to createing a bootskin.
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Reply By: jeremy74 | Posted: Monday, June 07, 2004
how do i change the time out from 3-1?
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Reply By: sam(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, May 20, 2004

im trying to put a boot screen but when i load up my computer it just goes to the boot screen and then the screen goes blank
what should i do to make my computer boot up regularly with the new boot screen i just put?answer as soon as possible

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Reply By: PoK(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, May 17, 2004

OK if someone could help me out i would really appreaciate it.
created a folder in the bootskinds directory "C:\Program Files\Stardock\WinCustomize\BootSkin\skins\xxx"
I created the picture. ran it through stardock skinstudio
tools/bootskin/prepare image\saved it into the above named directory
made the slider bar - saved it intot he above named directory
used a exisitng ini file and made the changes to correspond with my images
saved all three iinto the above named directory.

after reading over this manual a few times - i do not see how you merge the three files together to make the xxx.bootskin file ????

i opened up bootskin and i couldnt see my image in the list.

am i totally missing something here ?

can someone help me on what to do after you have all three files ready to go ?

thanks In Advance

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Reply By: PoK(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, May 17, 2004

never mind - i figured it out LoL
PoK

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Reply By: Stevo(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, May 26, 2004
I installed and loaded my own bootskin on my Dell and I messed around with something, I'm a tweaker, and I had to wipe out windows XP and all my precious files. So stick to the directions!
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Reply By: Lane Russell(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, May 27, 2004
this is fun
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Reply By: coolGuy(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, May 27, 2004

your shit's kool, it works goodbut all need is to make it a 32 color thing, not a 16

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Reply By: webmastah | Posted: Monday, December 01, 2003
thanks _martin_ i was wondering how to do it. i just got a funny picture and i want to make it a boot screen. *no-one please take my idea* my pic is the one of Mr. Burns (the simpsons) standing just barely covering his body and i am going to make it a boot screen just like whats-his-name, burns' secretary. lol alright thanks and expect the boot screen to be on wincustomize.com like around next week.
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Reply By: Marten(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, December 02, 2003
cool software ,but it prevents my dell inspiron from booting.instead I take the bootskin I like(jpg from prewiev)convert it to bmp , then in xteq setup I choose this bmp as a wallpaper before login,Then the picture stays longer during boot than it would have done if I had managed to get bootskin to work, So make bootskin change pre login picture instead of boot picture
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Reply By: adni18(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, December 02, 2003

Good looking and well detailed tutorial, very good work!

Though, there is no way to save anything with the method you have describe using the SkinStudio, strange!

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Reply By: Ian Hanschen | Posted: Monday, December 01, 2003
You rock martin!!
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Reply By: Ting(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, December 06, 2003
a very basic overview that could probably be gleaned from just viewing the example bootskins. Ps. my advice, dont use photoshop, it is useless at converting down to the correct image format. Try Jasc paintshop pro, works like a breeze. you really dont need to purchase Skinstudio in order to make these - ignore BLATENT advert.
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Reply By: arnoct(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, December 06, 2003
Nice guide... But I was wondering, I did everything the guide said (except for converting my image in skinstudio, cos I don't have a "bootskin" menu, instead I converted it in photoshop) and my bootskin works... But the image is weird. The image is shifted about 60 or 70 pixels to the left and the stuff that would be cut off is placed on the right side of the screen... Any ideas to what's causing this?
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Reply By: Arauthator(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, December 03, 2003
I wonder if placing the progress bar works on windows 2000? If anyone knows, let me know please. I'm having problems getting the bar to show but it could be due to the fact its placed in the wrong coordinates.
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Reply By: rajraz(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, December 04, 2003
Very detailed and informative tutorial, good job! keep up the good work!
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Reply By: gilahacker(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, December 05, 2003

Interesting problem here...
I took a picture... chopped and resized it down to 640x480 in photoshop CS, then converted it to a 16 color image (Image-Mode-Indexed Color...).
(note, everything I read says 4 bit file but I was only able to save in 8 bit???)
Exported the palette to a microsoft palette format and opened the progress bar from another file and applied that palette to it...
Put everything together in it's own directory under "skins" in the bootskin directory with the others...
Created my bootskin.ini file
My new skin appears correctly in the bootskin program... I selected it and it said that it would be active on next boot
Closed all my programs and rebooted...
It doesn't display my skin... instead it displays the default windows boot screen but using the palette from my picture and there's no progress bar at all (yes I set proper x and y values in the ini file)

I dont get it...

Gonna try one of the included skins to see if they work instead...

Dell Lattitude C840
WinXP SP1

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Reply By: gilahacker(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, December 05, 2003

update...
I figured it out... kinda...
used: http://server1.belchfire.net/Inno_Resize/ to convert my file (lost more color data and started from 16 color image, not full color... will try full color later) to a "working" format
but that didn't quite work... still same problem as before...
opened the "new" bitmap in photoshop and it FINALLY allowed me to save in 4 bit!!!!
changed my .ini file to point at the new bitmap (re-ran the bootskin app just to be sure)
Rebooted...
IT WORKS!!!

My only problem with the belchfire site is that it automatically adds a progressbar in the middle of your picture... I wanted mine in the bottom right corner...

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Reply By: hans-jьrgen mьller(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, December 09, 2003
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Reply By: maino(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, December 15, 2003
I'm having the same problem as arnoct where the image gets shifted. I tried applying some of the pre-made skins with BootSkin and they seem to do fine. Also, though, my skin comes up with the right colors at first but after a second it turns into a crazy looking monochromatic image for some reason. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Reply By: RCCCFPP(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, December 20, 2003

I SEEM TO NOT BE ABLE TO SAVE ANY IMAGE I TRIED IT BEFORE IT SEEMS TO WORK WIH SELECTED IMAGES MADE ONE BOOT SKIN
ALL OTHER IMGES WILL NOT CONVERT HELP.

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Reply By: majid(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, December 19, 2003

thank you

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Reply By: James J Pulley(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2003
When I use skin studio professional and try to save my image. I add a name and click save and it will not save the image no matter even if I use a image that I got from wincustomize. It is like the save function don't work. Any one with any Ideas would sure be helpful. Are there only certain colors that can be used? I have tried different programs and I am not getting any where.......
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Reply By: efrayim(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, December 25, 2003
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Reply By: Michael(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, December 24, 2003
new bootskin is a shit! my xp system doesn't start with new bootscreen - when system loads again, new bootscreen appears but that's all, nathing happens later, bootscreen disappear and everything stops. and that was screen downloaded from stardock, not the one I made myself. BE AWARE OF THIS PROG!
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Reply By: Djuro(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, January 01, 2004

I have the same problem with a crazy monochromatic picture when I boot the system. Did you manage to solve this problem? Please be free to contact me on my mail
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Reply By: SonicTHedgehog(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, December 31, 2003

i made a bootscreen, it works fine until 1 point where it displays a message for a fraction of a second, then restarts. I fixed it and i happen to know the error was printed by ntoskrnl.exe, so it had booted fine.
It was 16 colors and a test made in mspaint. why does it not work?

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Reply By: Profiltrash(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, December 31, 2003

Bah moi je le trouve sympas ce petit soft... ouais ouais ouais !!!

TERRIBLE... \/^-^!

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Reply By: Acajun(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, January 23, 2004
Tried to do the Bootskin a number of time but it did not work. Am using winXP home . What am I not doing right?
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Reply By:  (Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, January 23, 2004

This guide is seriously lacking. Not a word is said about the image sizing requirements. What size must a background image be? A progress bar image?

And let me warn other users: SkinStudio Free is an abomination. A horrible interface, and nag screens on startup and shutdown.

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Reply By: antibootskin(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, January 24, 2004

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Reply By: antibootskin(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, January 24, 2004

TAKE CARE ! bootskin has CRASHED MY SYSTEM ! NO POSSIBILITY TO START XP !
my system just rebooted and rebooted again !
ok this soft is cool etc... but:

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Reply By: antibootskin(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, January 24, 2004
IT IS NOT SAFELY !!!
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Reply By: Roborappa69(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, February 08, 2004

THIS IS CRAZY! I got everything together, but I need help. I resized my originally 1024x768 to 640x480. I did that though Photoshop, and saved it under 16bit.
Then, I opened it up in Windows XP's Paint, and saved it as 4bit or 16 colors. Now my bootskin is all crazy colors! Its not even close to being good. But my real question is; why is this like the way it is, and boot screens like Computer City and all those really high color skins can work.

If anyone can help me! That would be great.

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Reply By: Andy Stotzer(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, February 02, 2004

Type-o. I meant to say "I'm noW going to try the BootXP program that John mentioned."

Well, I did, and it coverted my image much better than SkinStudio/BootSkin did. However, the colors could still use some manual tweaking!

Does anybody have any advice on how to manually or automatically manage the 16 colors that are used? I was using Fireworks, Ulead PhotoImpact, MS Paint. And Ulead PhotoImpact had a 'Data' feature that let me pic 16 colors and 4bit (Indexed or Optimized).

But, my image is a screenshot of an F-16 Fighter Jet, and you can see the dithered pixels too much. It would be nice to move some of the colors closer together....

Help....?

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Reply By: John(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, February 01, 2004

I've got rid of BootSkin and am using BootXP (2.5). It worked first time and has a 640x480 16bit converter and you can move the progress bar in the one program!

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Reply By: silverwolf(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, February 01, 2004
it doesnt show the default progress bar of win 2k to show the (horrible) win xp progress bar , how i change it to win 2k ? i cant make a bootscreen i followed the instruction above ,the program makes the preview well but when i restart i only got a one color screen (random)
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Reply By: Thorn(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, February 01, 2004
Hello all. I am new to bootskin and I seem to be having problems when I download bootskins. When you have to select a program for the bootskin to go to, I can't find the right program.... Will someone please help. Thanks.
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Reply By: Andy Stotzer(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, February 01, 2004

I've been playing with BootSkin all day. I also have the problem of getting that stupid skinner program to save the boot image file. Only works if I select an existing file.

My only other problem is that the preview of my skin looks good, but when XP boots the image colors are all changed, and it looks like shit.

I'm not going to try the BootXP program that John mentioned.

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Reply By: Melanie(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, January 31, 2004
If I'm using bootskin, suddenly I can't use Style XP anymore.. I can use different colors in my WIndows but I can't use anothe rinlogscreen.. can I fix this in some way? Thanks.. !
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Reply By: Bender the Robot(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, January 31, 2004
I'm new to making boot screens, I've just made my first one, looks ok in boot skin but when I re-boot my machine all the colours are off. It is in 16 colours (4 Bit) black and white............ I am sure it has something to do with the colour pallet but am unsure how to correct it. Can some one give me some pointers please!!
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Reply By: Andy Stotzer(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2004

I found this other 'SwissBoy' instruction site very useful.

http://mypage.bluewin.ch/swissboy7/swissboyCD.html

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Reply By: John(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, January 29, 2004
I've tried out on of the BootSkin default ones and when I open bootskin and apply a skin and close bootskin. I retry opening Bootskin and its gone back to default. An why do the bootsking one up there look different to mine?
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Reply By: John(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, January 29, 2004

Looks really good, I did create a boot screen but it didn't work. I got a message to say I had to either have Safe Mode, Safe Mode Network, Normal Mode and others. I've just reliased it was 800x600 on 16 colours not 640x480 which I've just done

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Reply By: Impaled(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Great program... I have had no problems with BootSkin at all. What I can't understand is that if others are having problems with Satrdock's software, they either need to learn to use their PC correctly, or stop using software that they think is faulty. That seems to be the only logical explanation I can think of. Be looking for bootskin's from 'Impaled' soon. I have a few ideas and I will be uploading them to WinCustomizeupon completion.
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Reply By: Anne(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, January 29, 2004

You are looking for something different than this program offer..... Try to take a look for Stardocks Logon-Studio.....

-Anne-

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Reply By:  (Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, January 31, 2004

What does the "Type=0" or "Type=16" line do in BOOTSKIN.INI?

Monk - BootSkin works by loading a special driver which serves to display the BMP files. This driver is designed to be the *first* thing that loads when you are booting (specifically, it uses a "system reserved" driver order group name - go to http://www.sysinternals.com and download the LoadOrder utility).

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Reply By: Navid(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, January 31, 2004

When I put the progress bar in my bootskin the picture dropes although in preview everything is great. I think this is because of the way i convert any pic to 640x480x16. I'm using "FotoCanvas 2.0" and photoshop 7.0 and try to convert the rgb files to indexed format with all options but the same problem continues. Please someone help me what can I do?
Thanks

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Reply By: Abid Siddique (Anonymous User) (Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, February 26, 2004

I did these all things with my own way but not correctly be done, now I will try my best to creat my own bootskin.
If I want to publish my bootskin than what to do for it please guide me.

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Reply By: man (Anonymous User) (Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, February 25, 2004

I think I understand the tutorial. Why not working the hibernating functions with this changed skiins?
Anybody know? blank blackscreen after midgray but no saving, no harddisk light just dead!

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Reply By: aline (Anonymous User) (Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, February 24, 2004
obrigada por este programa que nos ajuda a aprender mais sobre os "segredos" da programaзгo da computaзгo.
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Reply By: anonymous(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, February 27, 2004
I was wondering what font was used in the boot screen shown in the example,
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Reply By: cereals_killer(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, February 29, 2004
hi all i've done all u said in the tutorial but after edited the .ini file i start bootskin but i don't see my bootskin....can someone help me??
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Reply By: jonyboy(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Hallo
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Reply By: Tach(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, March 05, 2004

I don't Get the crap image when i use skinstudio to covert my image into 16 color!!! How do you fix this prolem???????????

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Reply By: Someone(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, April 15, 2004
It doesn`t worked!!!!!!!!!11
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Reply By: makara(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, April 15, 2004
pio
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Reply By: Alvinado(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, April 17, 2004
And please, the progress bar must be of the same basic color as your background, if not you will get a background that is the same color as the progress bar.
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Reply By: Alvinado(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, April 17, 2004

Hey Guys....

You can actually convert your jpeg images to 4bit 16 color bitmap by using the PAINT program in windows itselp... Saves a lot of time. Adobe Photoshop is only good for high end images.

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Reply By: Shadrac(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, March 21, 2004

I downloaded and installed the bootskin.
I am running Win 2k pro.
I downloaded a couple skins, and applied ...
When I reboot ... I see the same win 2k boot screen.
It has yet to show ANY of the skins ....
Thoughts ?

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Reply By: People Call Me Bob(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, March 20, 2004
I created my own boot screen all good in colour and all I checked it with BootSkin and it was Fine.......I restart and it is Black and White and Grey no Colour!!!??? Any Ideas?
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Reply By: Frank Brower(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, March 21, 2004

I use Bootskin myself, both on my Windows 2000 PC and Windows XP Pro, each with no problems at all. The only thing with Windows 2000 is that the progress bar doesn't grow as normal, it kinda shifts back an forth, other then that, its working fine. Would like to see this fixed in the next version.
As for creating my own Bootskin, here is what I have come across. I tried using Paint Shop pro, brought the picture down to 16colors(4bit), 640x480 and all looks like inside Bootskin, but when I go to load it, windows changes the colors. Either making it very dark, or mostly white, depending on the image. This is without creating a progress bar(yet). I tried the exact same picture using FotoCanvas(or whatever its called from ACD systems) and did the same thing, and now the picture looks as it should. Would like to know what FotoCanvas does, that I am unable to duplicate in Paint Shop Pro. I know that wen I create the progress bar, it should be a certain size and needs to be the same color palet as the background. If anyone has created/edited a picture in Paint Shop pro and it came out okay, please let me know what dithering type to use, since there is a couple types of dithering to use.

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Reply By: Dan Kluver(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, March 20, 2004
Hell0.. I REALLY want 2 make a bootscreen... But I cant make it work... I think it is 2 hard! Cant u make a tool to make the bootscreens with... or can u guys make it for me... PLEASE answer and help me!
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Reply By: dan(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, March 22, 2004

same problem as me the lad with the ini and .bootskin problems! you'll have to work around it until there's a .bootskin editor, make your files, rename the corresponding files within a directory and use the file names of the prenamed picture.bmps to replace

example:

myfile.bmp

{source or skin}:
thematrix.bmp

replace your file "myfile" renaming it to "thematrix" .bmp - and delete the original! its works at least :DD

i dont think there's support for importing .ini no-more, there's got to be an editor out there that supports bootskin though!!

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Reply By: wes(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, March 22, 2004
thats just what hapened to me I used one boot skin and it worked used another and It stoped working just got the default skin.
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Reply By: wes(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, March 22, 2004
I have the same prob what should I do uninstall it and install it again or is there something else I can do.
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Reply By: Frank Brower(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, March 22, 2004
This is strange. I added some Bootskins of my own design today and rebooted and first one worked. I tried the others, one of which being just a background only and I got the Windows 2000 startup screen. I tried the others that I downloaded, which I know worked before and now they don't. Didn't change anything in the system. Will try un-instaling it and re-install Bootskin just to see, but don't think it will as someone already tried this. Anyone else have any ideas?
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Reply By: wes(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, March 22, 2004
well I tried what I said In my above post and it dosent work still i would really like to get it going so why dosent it work anyone plz help.
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Reply By: Mack(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, March 19, 2004
I just read your comment. I wish that I had read it before I installed that stupid program!!!!! How did you finally fix your problem? My XP will not start unless in SAFE Mode. Any suggestiions would be greatly appreciated!!!!
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Reply By: Gareth Lees(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, March 20, 2004
My bootscreen doesn't appear in the window, what's wrong?
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Reply By: gabriel 8a(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, March 20, 2004
very good
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Reply By: People Call Me Bob(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Thanks Frank Brower I just needed to use same pallet for image as progress bar :)
Thanks Mate

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Reply By: Frank Brower(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Just thought I'd let everyone know, that I've even tried un-installing Bootskin, removing the folder and all instances of it in the Registry(or anywhere else I could find), re-installed Bootskin and just tried the default skins, before re-adding mine, and still it didn't work. It still works on my XP machine at home, but not on my Windows 2K. I understand about what dan said about renaming the files and such, but shouldn't it work just after re-installing Bootskin and before adding your other skins.
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Reply By: Nick(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, March 26, 2004

hey, just tried to use my custom bootskin on my compaq evo n610c laptop...

and holy F is that thing messed up...

so i must've not done something right when i created my own cuz after i activated my custom one and restarted... my laptop is TOTALLY messed up...

so aftdr restarting it about 1k times i finally get to login and i get this msg saying my shiz is all messed up
it's kinda like i'm stuck in safe mode, it says my ATI driver is either not installed or functioning properly...
i can't turn up the res or color bit or i get this blue screen that flashes up with a lot of white writeing on it but it's only up for like 1/2 a sec... then restarts

i'm currently trying to re-install my ATI drivers...

PLEASE help me...

btw, i'm on my PC rigth now... trying to get help so please help me...

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Reply By: Frank Brower(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, March 25, 2004

Still having problems with Bootskin and Windows 2000, but have come acrossed something a little different. If you go to: http://www.littlewhitedog.com/content-9.html
It gives instructions on how to change the bootskin in Windows 2000. I'm not knocking Bootskin, as it is a great program, but for some of us Windows 2000 users where Bootskin does not work, this might help, or atleast use it until the next version of Bootskin. It also has a gallery of pictures that can be used, not to mention creating your own as well, with the same format as mentioned above. Hope this helps.

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Reply By: Michael(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, March 25, 2004
I LOVE
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Reply By: Frank Brower(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, March 26, 2004
If you are using XP, then you can use Windows XP system restore feature to go back to before you installed Bootskin, if using Windows 2000, then boot off the original install cd and do a repair. This can also be done with XP as well. If that doesn't work and you can't fix the problem youself, either by doing a re-install of drivers, or fixing settings, then the only choice left is do re-install everything. Since I'm not in front of your machine, its hard to tell what exactly is going on, and what happened, but I've installed it on 2 different machines, with no problems. Good luck in fixing it.
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Reply By: mild(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, March 27, 2004
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Reply By: wassupwassup(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, March 29, 2004
This shit sucks
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Reply By: farokh(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, May 10, 2004

hi
i want a soft ware for creat pic to bootskin.
thanks.
bye

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Reply By: dieAgainTommarroAlot(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, May 09, 2004
Thanx, im getting the free version of skinstudio right now.. i hope it will work. Im tryin to make "WINDOWS STORM" im using a whole bunch of programs I think its cool, stardock is really helpful.
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Reply By: virgil childress(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, May 09, 2004
not working when boots up
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Reply By: virgil childress(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, May 09, 2004
not working when boots up
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Reply By: Whocares(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, May 11, 2004
THIS IS SO EASY--------> IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE 8-BITMAPS IMAGES TO 4-BITMAPS IMAGES , FORGET ABOUT PHOTOSHOP--------> WHAT YOU NEED IS FIREWORKS MX (by macromedia.com) YOU GUYS S%@K
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Reply By: Some guy about a Warning Error From Windows XP(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, May 15, 2004

I Apply The BootScreen Then I Reboot The Computer and Sure, The Boot Screen works fine, but then my computer comes up saying
WINDOWS HAS EXPERIENCED AN ERROR AND HAS SHUT DOWN PREMATURELY

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Then All This Blaa About Hardware And Software. I press the power button, and the computer turns off, but when I reboot, It asks If I Want to use safe mode. I have to change to 'no skinning' in Bootskin which works fine. I've tried with more than one skin but it does the same thing. Someone please help.

Computer Edition Running: Windows XP Home Edition(Build xxxxx.xxx)

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Message Checked before Outgoing on Non-Secure Connection By TXTServe

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Reply By: SturmB | Posted: Thursday, May 06, 2004
I've finally been successful in creating a bootskin, for the most part. I am not worried about putting a progress bar in it, just to thave the bootskin image showing for the duration of the boot. But, like a couple of other folks here, the image was shifted to the left when I rebooted and it is always like that every time I reboot. Sure, I could go into PhotoShop and displace the image to the right, with the pixels wrapping around to help offset this, but it seems like this would be unnecessary if there is an easier solution at hand. Also, how can I know if this same predicament will occur on other computers? Does anyone know the cause of this 'shifting' and how to resolve it?
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Reply By: ruhyiyici(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, May 06, 2004
Slm, sanэrэm boot image yapmayэ iyi bir юekilde anlattэn.Ama ben anlamadэm.Neden ? Зьnkь ingilizce bilmiyorum.
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Reply By: yige(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, May 05, 2004
How can I change the 8-bit Bitmap to 4-bit bitmap? Can I use Photoshop to do it? And how to do it?
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Reply By: Fdgt(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, May 02, 2004
tanks
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Reply By: URAKING(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, May 03, 2004
YOUR BUTTSKIN IS NOT VERY CHEWY AT ALL
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Reply By: URAKING(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, May 03, 2004
YOUR BUTTSKIN IS NOT VERY CHEWY AT ALL
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Reply By: URAKING(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, May 03, 2004
YOUR BUTTSKIN IS NOT VERY CHEWY AT ALL
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Reply By: Tang Os | Posted: Thursday, April 22, 2004

hi everyone,

did my skin under photoshop, saved it in 4 bits, saw it working perfectly under bootskin (progress bar and everyhing!!) but once applied and tested ... the colors are inverted and no progressbar on the screen...

any ideas?

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Reply By: ANIL(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, April 22, 2004

TO
FRANK BROWER

THANKS FOR YOUR SUGGESTIONS & GUIDANCE.
ATLAST I MADE MY BOOT SKINS.ALL SKINS ARE WORKING FINE & I AM HAPPY.
I WANT SUBMIT THE BOOT SKIN HOW TO SUBMIT IT
PLEASE HELP

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Reply By: Tang Os | Posted: Thursday, April 22, 2004

me again,

tried converting my bitmap with paint shop pro, appeared to really be in 4 bits 16 colors, still not working...
tried under my other computer (also xp pro), skin appeared with inverted colors, no progess bar, then a black screen came with window's progress bar. this screen never disapeared, had to reboot under safe mode .....

please help.

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Reply By: shawn(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, April 24, 2004
I am making an alienware skin and the pallettes are both same (by the way i figured out it uses the pallette in the loading bar) and my background is the right size but the loading bar is 1x1 pixel. The prev is fine but when i reboot, it is as if there are only 4 colors or something! both bitmaps are no compression, 4 bit, 16 color windows bitmap images. Any help?
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Reply By: jackrabbit23 | Posted: Monday, April 19, 2004
when i reboot i see the boot screen then i see a black screen and nothing happens.It's like my cpu is stuk in hibernate. after that i presed the power buton on my cpu.with shut down very fast and then i had to use safe mode to enter bootscreen and apply my defalt i want to use this program but im having dificlty plz help me im runing xpprosp1
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Reply By: jackrabbit23 | Posted: Monday, April 19, 2004
when i reboot i see the boot screen then i see a black screen and nothing happens.It's like my cpu is stuk in hibernate. after that i presed the power buton on my cpu.with shut down very fast and then i had to use safe mode to enter bootscreen and apply my defalt i want to use this program but im having dificlty plz help me im runing xpprosp1
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Reply By: SaCo(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, April 19, 2004
i got everything else but i cant get the boot skin prog 2 recon the skins i make i doono why :|( can some one plz help me!!!
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Reply By: jm(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Cuando esta cargando el windows xp con su nueva configuracion la maquina se me reinicia y no puedo cargar el sistema
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Reply By: Robert Merrick(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, April 30, 2004
I have just downloaded and install BootSkin. I have read these instructions and plan to make my own skin. I will have to let you know how it works. It looks like fun.
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Reply By: littlewater(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, May 01, 2004

thanks!~ very interesting ... before i use it,will youplease tell me ...that 16 color means 16 bits or only 16 kinds of color??
somebody tell me that they use themselevs' pictures but i find that they (these pictures) aren't only 16 kinds of color^^:

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Reply By: SNiPer(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, September 13, 2004
yeh yeh great tutorial, just one thing, after doing all that crap... the them i made doesnt show up in the proggy :\ any comments?
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Reply By: T(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, September 20, 2004
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Reply By: Sanek(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, September 21, 2004
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Reply By: mer(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, September 21, 2004
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Reply By: bla(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, September 17, 2004
I'm having a MAJOR problem with bootskin. I make my own bootskin and save it. It works perfect when i preview it in the bootskin program, but when i apply it and reboot, all the colors are messed up! Can anyone help?
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Reply By: Wantaskillet(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
I downloaded a skin from: http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=32 Import it only lets me import .bootskin files but the skin file I downloaded was a .bmp file...what do I do? How do I apply the skin I downloaded (the.bmp file)?
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Reply By: ben(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, September 27, 2004
how do the other bootskins that look grat in detail, how do they get them to work like a well detailed picture that i use and stuffs up how do i do this
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Reply By: Wantaskillet(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Somebody?
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Reply By: Club69.Net(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, October 01, 2004

Nice Program after I learned how to add skins to it.
Now I need one that can run amin .gifs or flash intro.
other then that this is kool for now. Thanks Club69

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Reply By: kaindragoon36 | Posted: Friday, October 01, 2004
You need to make sure you have your progress bar converted to a 16 color bitmap. I used MS paint to set the format because it seems to get it right.
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Reply By: koala72 | Posted: Friday, October 01, 2004
great now i no why my boot skin wont load on the bootskin program because my images are more that 16 colours it should be 24bit bitmap images that should be allowed not 16 NOT HAPPY THEY NEED A NEW VERSION
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Reply By: koala72 | Posted: Friday, October 01, 2004
great now i no why my boot skin wont load on the bootskin program because my images are more that 16 colours it should be 24bit bitmap images that should be allowed not 16 NOT HAPPY THEY NEED A NEW VERSION
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Reply By: Max(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, August 30, 2004

My bootskin.exe can't find the ini.......
What do i have to do? how can i create the ".bootskin"-file?
please help me
Max

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Reply By: kevin(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, August 24, 2004

but my bootskin doesn't work properly.
blue screen occurs.

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Reply By: Brazen1(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, September 02, 2004
Nice guide here very easy to get the hang of but its so much more fun doing it manually rather than using SkinStudio.
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Reply By: Alix(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, September 03, 2004

RUBISH IT IS SKIN STUDIO FREE I INSTALL IT AND THEN RUN IT BUT IT SAYS IT IS EXPIRED!!

PLAEASE POST A REPLAY

THANKS
ALIX

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Reply By: Matthew Wolfe | Posted: Thursday, September 02, 2004
I can't get the bootskin to come up ever when I click apply then restart the computer nothing happens. What I'm trying to say is that it keeps going back to the defult one how do I make it stop doing that.
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Reply By: dMx(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, September 05, 2004
I do not know coordinates such as x: y: how can i know?
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Reply By: John(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, September 03, 2004
I followed your directions and when I load Bootskin, my skin does not appear with the others on the list. What else should be done?
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Reply By: John(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, September 03, 2004

Pok,
Would you please tell me how you "figured it out"? I have the same problem you had with the "merging" of the three files and not seeing them on the Bootskin list.

Thanks,

John

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Reply By: RekoSaint | Posted: Monday, September 06, 2004
I'm having a problem. I did everything on the tutorial but I do not get the new skin in my bootskin at all. I see the folders like Stardock Blue, Toon ect... but there is none for my file? I used bmp images for both parts of the file and made my own text file like the one made in the tutorial? Do I have to save anything as a special type of file? or if so how would I do that?
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Reply By: A.S(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Hi,
How can we make bootscreen without use "boot skin"?
I mean that I want to khow that how "bootskin" work and which files in "system root" must to change to make WindowsXP load a new boot screen

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Reply By: rjn(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, September 06, 2004
When I try to choose and apply a boot skin, I always receive the message "boot screen skinning is now disabled". What should I do to re-activate that ?
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Reply By: quentin(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Thx!!!
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Reply By: CHaoSlayeR(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, September 10, 2004

This little nice prog does its very well, except a requirement is not met. In that case it is like with all system critical programs >> it could make you go nuts. But that's the way it is...

If anyone wants to change the picture without managing with a seperate program just get "Resource Hacker" or "Restorator", open the File "NTOSKRNL.EXE" from within the "system32"-folder and there you can see the original pictures that can be replaced with your own.

In Windows 2000 the bar above the progress bar is made by shifting the hole image area. The image has to have a special palette. The color of the progress bar itself has to be the second entry in the 16 color palette!

For Windows XP I haven't tried to modify the Kernel file itself but with some knowledge it can be much safer than playing with other programs. If you want to try out a changed kernel file safely then make sure you have modified a copy of the "ntoskrnl.exe"!!! name it like whatever you want. It must be placed in the same directory as the original and has to be in 8.3 format. Now you have to edit the file "boot.ini" that is located commonly in "C:\". remove write protection and then open it. There should be a line like this:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

if you can't find the file "boot.ini" then you have not specified to view system and hidden files...

Now that you see the line, copy and paste it so that you have a second line. Now change the displayed text ("Microsoft Windows XP Professional") so that remenber what kernel you are booting. At last set a new parameter at the end of the line: /kernel=XXXXXXXX.exe where the X's are for the filename of the new kernel you made above. The second line should now look like this:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP for boot testing" /fastdetect /kernel=ntoskrn2.exe

You can try whatever you want with the second kernel file as it doesn't affect other files or configurations. You can make as many different kernels as you want...

For Windows 2000 I have made a detailed manual that is located at my page but it's only in german. e-mail me if you want me to translate it. When I finished the workout on Windows XP and 2k3 I will post it on my page...

hope I could help someone...

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Reply By: Henry Rodriguez(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, July 26, 2004

How i can make the image larger

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Reply By: Martin(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, July 27, 2004

A quite good program. It costs me time to explore it but now I know how to use it!
I'm from Austria. I#m speaking german, so it was a bit difficult to translate your advices. Sorry if I have made some mistakes in my reply.

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Reply By: philipphallo | Posted: Thursday, July 29, 2004

Hello, I have a big problem i hope you can help me: The picture i made is allmost black and white but why is the picture violett when I oad windows???? Write your answer to [email-masked]!!! Please heeelp me!!!!!!
Thank you Philipp

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Reply By: Sniper69(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, July 29, 2004
To anyone who recieves this comment regarding boot skins can you send me detailed instructions to manully insert bootskins or send me to a place that can!
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Reply By: elete trooper(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, July 19, 2004
I am having the same problem as many other people. when I use ver. 1.05 I get the stop screen, when I use ver. 1.03, and 1.02 my screen just goes blank and the computer stops loading WinXP. If anyone has a solution please share it with the rest of us!!!!!!!
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Reply By: Zach(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, July 09, 2004

You could add a little on how to make the load bar

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Reply By: miskalin(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, July 11, 2004

What file or Files in "C:\Windows\...." this programm CHANGED???
mailto: [email-masked]

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Reply By: Nansy(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, July 16, 2004
please send this program free to me
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Reply By: _btw_(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, July 14, 2004
p.s.s. all the other skins I have work just fine!
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Reply By: _btw_(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, July 14, 2004
p.s. the preview works fine, except the loading thing (progress bar) is chopped in half. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!
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Reply By: _btw_(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, July 14, 2004

IF YOU CAN READ THIS, PLEASE HELP!!

I did everything he said. The thing is, the boot screen dosent display the progress bar, and the backround colors are all distorted. I used paint and the thingy in skinstudio, and they all dont work! I made all the images in photoshop 7.0.
please e-mail me at: [email-masked]

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Reply By: HAha(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, July 13, 2004
УРГ»УРЦРОДµДЛµГчЎЎЎЎAny Chinese Explain??
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Reply By: asianprodigy | Posted: Sunday, August 01, 2004
is there a way to make the progress bar move slower?
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Reply By: Sharon_holev(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, August 02, 2004
WOW its amazing tank yuoooooooooooooo
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Reply By: Pete(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, August 04, 2004
I did everything like you said, and it appeared fine in bootskin. The preview showed correctly. I set it as my active bootskin. When I started up, it showed the bios screen, then went black, then showed the bios screen, and so on. I had to start up in safe mode, and change the active one to a different bootskin, and then when I started up again, it worked fine with another bootskin. IWhat happened?
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Reply By: Sйbastien(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, August 05, 2004
Hi! i got a problem whit my boot screen it do not change from the first boot i put on.I try to active another one but no change???
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Reply By: Rick(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, August 05, 2004
All instructions were followed. 4bit, 16color, ini file, preview works fine. When I try to use the new boot skin, I get greyscale instead of color. This is the only problem. Any suggestions?
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Reply By: Mikas2004 | Posted: Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Nice tutorial, thanks!

MARTIN RuleZ

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Reply By: abc(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, October 15, 2004

see i have downloaded and installed all the versions but have failed on various attempts.
As and when i reboot the image appears but the computer hangs and i have 2 switch it if
help me

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Reply By: ROBERTO SOLIS(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, October 19, 2004

YO HE USADO BOOTSKIN, PERO TRANSFIERO EL ARCHIVO DE SKIN A C:\WINDOWS\RESOURCES\BOOT Y LO MONTO CON
"STYLEXP FOR MAN": HAGO CLICK EN BOOT Y BUSCO EL SKIN QUE TRANSFERI, ENTONCES LO APLICO Y REINICIO.
TODO ME VA MUY BIEN................

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Reply By: Gus(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, October 21, 2004
Somebody please help me get the progress bar to work...I'm so close to being done!!!!....I would really appreciate is someone out there who knows their stuff could help me out. THANKS!!!
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Reply By: Gus(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, October 21, 2004
Somebody please help me get the progress bar to work...I'm so close to being done!!!!....I would really appreciate is someone out there who knows their stuff could help me out. THANKS!!!
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Reply By: Gus(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, October 21, 2004
Somebody please help me get the progress bar to work...I'm so close to being done!!!!....I would really appreciate is someone out there who knows their stuff could help me out. THANKS!!!
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Reply By: Jeremy(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, October 21, 2004
I have windows xp home I try to download bootskin and then when I reboot my computer it wouldnot let me so I had to go to safemode to disable bootskin to get my windows come up so how do I set it up to wear my bootskins work right pleaes tell me how thank you
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Reply By: travis(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, October 05, 2004
man i followed the directions exactly did it perfect at least i think but i it doesnt show up on the list of boot skins
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Reply By: HumanFish | Posted: Monday, October 11, 2004

I still dont know what to do with my .bmp file

where do i put it? do i make some kind of program or code or something for it to run?

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Reply By: Zelphor(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, October 10, 2004
It didn't show up on the list for me either, but after I placed the "Screen=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.bmp" line BEFORE the "ProgressBarX = XXX" line in the .ini file.... SUCCESS!!! It only showed me the normal boot screen when I restarted, but after powering down and turning my PC on again, it worked (It was a mod of a wallpaper jpeg of "The Matrix Code", btw)
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Reply By: AP(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, November 07, 2004

Thanks for the tut!!

Spacerazor: I guess the 16 colors is hard limit. For the boot screen..

Logon Studio is fine tool for editing the next picture: the welcome/login screen.

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Reply By: siamak(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, November 05, 2004

hi
please tell me , how to creat boot skin?
thanks

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Reply By: mostafa(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, November 05, 2004
ki
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Reply By: SpaceRazor(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, November 06, 2004

Hi @all,
MARTIN for President ^^!!! I really managed to create an own skin! I can't believe it *g*.
But, can somebody tell me whether I can use more then 16 colors by now or is this still the limit :/? My picture looks a lil bit stupid with only 16 .

greets,
SpaceRazor

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Reply By: mflintjer(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, November 02, 2004
I also used BootXP 2.5 -- and whammo! It worked the first time! I finally created a Bootskin! Now Why won't Boot Editor work? I installed everything properly and when I go to save it -- the prog freezes!!!! Talk about FRUSTRATING!! Any way, has anyone else tried to figure out why the boot skins we are able to download from the net are so much better graphically than what we can make with BootXP or Boot Editor!?!?
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Reply By: ana(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, October 29, 2004

u rullle!! i've made a bot screen ma self thanks 2 u!=*********** dude really!

c yas=)

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Reply By: Somu(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, November 01, 2004
It dint work.Please tell me if the resolution has to be only 640--480 and the size has to be 150 kb. It didnt work when the file size increasd more than 150kb . The problem is that bmp files have size more than 150kb . Please reply me how to create bootscreen if the wallpaper size is more than 150kb ie if it is 900kb
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Reply By: -(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, October 22, 2004
when i save it i run BootSkin but the bootskin was not there
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Reply By: Lizfunk(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, October 23, 2004

Hi there,

in the selfmade boot screens, the progress bar is visible all the time. So, when the bar jumps to the left, this looks awfully. In the original boot screen, the bar moves smoothly in from outside the box and vanishes on the right side. What is the difficulty about implementing such a feature in BootSkin?

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Reply By: Paul Foster | Posted: Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Oh dear. Did I miss something in this tutorial? I opened skin studio and managed to follow up to browse for the image and saved it. Now what was that Martin about saving the two images. I only have one so far. You completely lost me after creating the sub directory. Had you said Now place your saved image in the new folder and moved on step by step. Sorry. And how do you start with the image progress bar. There seemed to be a compete jump ahead so am leaving this tutorial which has left me lost. Can anyone explain or please help me out? It's very easy for those people who know what they're doing to forget where they started and leave us novices lagging behind. [email-masked]
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Reply By: zubbee(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, January 27, 2005
hi i wanna shine of windows 98
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Reply By: juwon(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, January 30, 2005

hi
i made the bootskin but i cant view it cos it in 3 files not one all the other bootskin files i have are in ext .bootskin but in my case i have three files the loader the background and the ini file

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Reply By: gordo2389(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, January 30, 2005
I have download Bootskin and the skins that I like. I choose the one I like and then hit apply. It says that they Skin has been properly placed and will load during the next restart, but when my computer does restart it either overrides the bootskin and used the original Microsoft XP Boot screen or the computer loads the screen where you have to choose between Safemode and all that crap, and the only way to get past that is I have to click on Load Last Known Good Configuration. Any suggestions on how to get Bootskin to run. I am using an Emachine T1100 with and Intel Celeron proccesor.
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Reply By: matt(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, January 31, 2005

Ya, Windows(R) 2003 won't let you change the Boot Screen and work and there for you have to to log in to windows(r) 2003 in safe mode to change it.

If You Have any Prolbems Email ME back [email-masked] lata

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Reply By: De'Mc In(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, February 03, 2005
HI!
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Reply By: De'Mc In(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, February 03, 2005
Tut russkie byvaut? Ya ni hrena ne ponyal!
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Reply By: Fab(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, February 04, 2005
Damn! it works one time but not 2 without relaunching the prog( i get the basic Xp screen)
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Reply By: bootskin newbie(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, February 04, 2005
has anyone been able to get past the IRQL error yet? If so could you please explain the procedure? I have seen several posts here that people are having this issue, but I do not see anyone who has replied with a resolution? Again I am using the "safe" skins from their website and am receiving the blue screen with the IRQL error. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!!
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Reply By: LoneFerret(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, February 03, 2005

Well, I'm going put in my two cents.
I got bootskin from a magazine a purchased (EZ Tech Guide Windows XP The Easy Way... 10$CAD wasted in my opinion). To apply new skins it seems to work fine, so far. I haven't tried making a new skin yet, decided on reading on the subject before trying anything. Because as we all know, changing something in Windows can be dangereous...it's Microsoft remember!
Like Nesseight said, (I took a good half hour to read this entire page he posted on March 16, 2004 so I had more reading to do them him) lots of information here is assupmtion and guess work. I sugggest that the creators of this forum gather information THEY know to be right, and make a good Howto or/and DoNOT page. This would greatly reduce the posts like:"I tried making a new skin and it didn't work! Why?".
Monk's (posted on January 25, 2004) alternative to skinning the boot screen is the use a hacked version of the "NTOSKRNL.EXE" file. Good idea, if you know how. But this is the Internet, I'm sure their's a tutorial out there somewhere.
Here's my suggestion to all of you:
1.: Check your 6... (sorry Old Rogue Spear player..cover your back)
Before trying something you don't know, check the System Restore in WinXP. At least you'll be able to return to settings before something went wrong.
2.:Read as much information on what you trying to do. What I'm doing right now.
3.:Back-up important files, stuff like your registry and personal stuff perhaps.
4.:When posting questions, avoid things like "It doesn't work! Why?"
Explain in detail (as best you can) what you did in sequence. When doing something for the first time, write down what you did so you can back track what you did wrong and where.
Then you'll be able to post it with your questions. Odds are it will be easier to help you out.
5.:When successful, post what you did in sequence. Remember you needed help too. Be kind to others and help them out when you can.

I don't want to sound preachy, but I learned long ago when you start someting you don't exactly understand you'll screw up at least once. If you take notes, you'll be able to know where, and maybe why, so you don't make that mistake twice.
Well I'm off. Gonna try and make a skin. Wish me luck..
Thx...
LoneFerret
p.s. People, when programming... put comments in your code..

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Reply By: 209iNC(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, February 06, 2005
im not creating any im just downloading them but since i've downloaded the 'bootskin' program its never worked for me, i mean i click on the screen i want and i go to apply then i'll close the window and restart my computer and everytime i restart the computer the bootscreen is its original windows xp boot screen, i dont get it cuz when i applied it, the program told me it was successfully and will be used the next time my computer is booted.... help anyone?
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Reply By: Rask(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, January 16, 2005
Ебать вас в рот ебучие америкосы.Red Alert 2 Forever!
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Reply By: mr5strings(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, January 20, 2005

After a trying to create my own BootSkin, I finally succeeded -- almost! Over more than a day invested, I finally got the info that the image and the progress bar must totally equal 16 colors. Well, after stumbling on to that tidbit of info, I got the BootSkin to lo load and look just the way I expected...BUT...I seem to have inherited a tiling effect. Needless to say, I welcome any light that can be shed on this.

If I didn't have a progress bar, hell, it would make a nice effect, but, as it is, my progress bar is moving in the right place, but the progress bar box is in a different (negative) X position altogether. Okay, to sum up -- my BootSkin is tiling...any thoughts?

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Reply By: Flea(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, January 23, 2005
I am having problem with finding my BootSkin.ini file.. where to find it?
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Reply By: DonJuan89(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, January 23, 2005
More as 16 colors, is it possibly?
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Reply By: Izzy(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, January 21, 2005
i have widows xp home. i want a windows xp professional bootscreen. just a standard one. how do i make it? do i need to download the program?
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Reply By: cody(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, January 25, 2005
just wondering if there was a way to make a boot screen password protected??????????????????If so how
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Reply By: MOyA(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, January 07, 2005
LMAO!! I'm uninstalling this piece of junk. It doesn't work! Windows gets stuck in a restart loop. Thank God I'm a tech that knows how to deal with issues like this. I was able to get Windows working again by loading the last known good configuration.
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Reply By: harmonic(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, January 07, 2005

Dear anti-bootskin , by pressing ecape and control alt f, you can by pass your boot screen
program!!!!!!!....no problem...bootskins is fine, its the operator...lol

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Reply By: AD_Soldier(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, January 09, 2005

Yaar kia maa ke choot hia Bhan chood Chalta hee nahi kuch karoo yaar koi mashwara doo k kisterhan chalygaa
main nay bohat try ke per nahi chala

pary shaan hoon Boot Screen kaam hee nahi ker rahi hai .INI files tabdeel ker k dekh lia hai

3 time change ke windows per woo kaam hee nahi kia koi hai joo acha saa maswara dy PLZZZzz :$

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Reply By: Mirza Asad Baig(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, January 09, 2005

Taree maa keee choot main mera lund bhan chood Randi k bachy

bhan ko chodon, taree maa kus main aag,

YOU Are soo greate Bro

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Reply By: @lien(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, January 09, 2005
Классная штучка !!! А ещё советую посмотреть LogonStudio на WinCustomize.com
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Reply By: Anusan | Posted: Tuesday, December 28, 2004

u suck

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Reply By: Anusan | Posted: Tuesday, December 28, 2004

u suck

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Reply By: terry(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, December 29, 2004
can't get them to work on my computer
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Reply By: Tyler Shaffer(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, December 29, 2004
I made my bootskin and saved it to the place I should but I do not see it in bootskin. Please help!
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Reply By: ghgh(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, December 26, 2004
this is rotten
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Reply By: Mike(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, December 24, 2004

It works, but the picture doesn't look like it does in the preview when XP realy starts up.
It looks really, really bad. I must be doing something wrong. How do I have to prepare a pic in Photoshop,
so that it looks good converted with Skin Studio?

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Reply By: Billy(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, February 21, 2005
I try it it didn't work
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Reply By: hamid(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, February 19, 2005
salam
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Reply By: Manfred Stephan(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, February 19, 2005
i have the same problem as Zyul.Please help me...in German...
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Reply By: mghkm(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, February 18, 2005
mgkkkkkk
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Reply By: Zyul(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, February 18, 2005
I have download Bootskin and the skins that I like. I choose the one I like and then hit apply. It says that they Skin has been properly placed and will load during the next restart, but when my computer does restart it either overrides the bootskin and used the original Microsoft XP Boot screen or the computer loads the screen where you have to choose between Safemode and all that crap, and the only way to get past that is I have to click on Load Last Known Good Configuration. Any suggestions on how to get Bootskin to run
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Reply By: jo(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, February 17, 2005
hhh
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Reply By: exterminabur(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, February 15, 2005

simple and efficient
cool
I'm french
Congratulations!
but can you give some links to web sit where we can find skin for "bootskin" ; other than windowblind site of course
well done !

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Reply By: Jeson(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, February 12, 2005
Well, very nice! But when i use any of them my computer do not start. I mean after showing that screen it restart again and again!
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Reply By: Juned(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Good Very Goog is the best for bootscreen
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Reply By: Juned(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
No Comment
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Reply By: realrookiew | Posted: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
It can't be easier than that... In previeuw I created a 256-bit bootscreen but didn't load on startup
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Reply By: Vic(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, February 26, 2005

HELL!!! It doesn't randomize!
What to do? (DO NOT RECOMMEND CHECK "Randomize" option in menu.)
Any ideas? (info: winXP sp2/WB/SkinStudio/LogonStudio/DX/WinFX - all works)
Desperately waiting for answers...

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Reply By: JoDa(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, March 02, 2005
I've been working with skins and such for over 10 years. This product is definitely not ready for Prime Time. When they get the color depth problem figured out it might be worth it. But for now its more frustrating than fun.
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Reply By: Mauro(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, March 02, 2005
I have download Bootskin and the skins that I like. I choose the one I like and then hit apply. It says that they Skin has been properly placed and will load during the next restart, but when my computer does restart it either overrides the bootskin and used the original Microsoft XP Boot screen or the computer loads the screen where you have to choose between Safemode and all that crap, and the only way to get past that is I have to click on Load Last Known Good Configuration. Any suggestions on how to get Bootskin to run
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Reply By: Tony(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, March 03, 2005
I did everything the instructions said but my bootskin doesnt show on my list. I was hoping it would too since i created a goth edition screen. Everything is set correctly and it wont show. Any suggestions?
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Reply By: Robert Dickinson(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2005

I have downloaded several Bookskins but am having problems installing them. Every time I try to install one, the program cannot find the *.Bookskin file. How can I install the downloaded Bootskins? there are no instructions in the program. i would appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Robert Dickinson

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Reply By: Robert Dickinson(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2005

I have downloaded several Bookskins but am having problems installing them. Every time I try to install one, the program cannot find the *.Bookskin file. How can I install the downloaded Bootskins? there are no instructions in the program. i would appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Robert Dickinson

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Reply By: Robert Dickinson(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2005

I am having the same problem. I downloaded several Bootskins and unpacked them into individual folders. When i start bootSkin and try to import the downloaded bootskins it canot find the *.bootskin file. I canot import any of the bootskins i donloaded. I would appreciate any help in figuring this out. the program does not come with instructions or support.

Thanks,

RLD

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Reply By: Robert Dickinson(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2005

If you figure this out please let me know. I am having the same problem. downloaded several bootskins but canot get Bootskin to find the *.Bookskin file. Somebody must know how to make this work.

Thanks,

RLD

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Reply By: TCrosser(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2005
I can in no way, shap,e or form understand why your are experiencing problems. I just dled this prog 10 mins ago, installed, and have already started cranking out skins. You might want to try munk's idea. Learn to operate a PC.
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Reply By: Luke(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, March 11, 2005
Im having the same problem, followed directions but my skin wont show up on the list. Even if i wanted to import it only looks for *.bootskin files... WHY!!!!!
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Reply By: thecynic(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, March 27, 2005
thank m8. really clear and helpful. let us now banish corporate logos
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Reply By: Hazylunarrain | Posted: Saturday, March 26, 2005
On topic with the article: I always wondered how to make one. I think I will try one tomorrow. If it's successful you'll be seein it on WinCustomize. Thx for your help
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Reply By: nce2knwu | Posted: Wednesday, March 23, 2005

I load the Bootskin but it keeps on restarting over and over after the loading of the skin.. What should i do? pls help me ..thank you..

nce2knwuEmail

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Reply By: nce2knwu | Posted: Wednesday, March 23, 2005

I load the Bootskin but it keeps on restarting over and over after the loading of the skin.. What should i do? pls help me ..thank you..

nce2knwu

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Reply By: Sblaster(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, March 19, 2005

I have downloaded several Bookskins but am having problems installing them. Every time I try to install one, the program cannot find the *.Bookskin file. How can I install the downloaded Bootskins? there are no instructions in the program. i would appreciate any help.

Thanks,

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Reply By: Con-Echo(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2005
I've tried everything but i can't seem to get my skin to appear in the bootskin window. i've downloaded a few and they seems to work fine but mine just doesn't show up. I've written the .ini file and i'm sure its correct, but it's just not showing up.
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Reply By: Con-Echo(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2005
I have the same problem.. have you figured out a solution yet?
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Reply By: Tharaka(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2005

When I Apply Boot screen Your Software So My computer Continuesly restat So i thing There mybe some wrong thing with bot.ini files
So please check with boot.ini file my be crash with it
thanks

tharaka

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Reply By: Rev. Troy Wilson(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, April 02, 2005

Windows Home XP, on a Pavilion A705W tower, 256 RAM, 40 Gig Hard drive, downloaded all Stardock software, bootskins installed as well. I select a skin and then...Seems old Xp just always reverts back to Windowds XP screen and never gives me the skin...OR.. the machine gives the skin up and then it goes to screen where I have to Load from last known good config...??? Ok so a little dumb I be...But this is really a nice program, works great on my Compaq Presario!
Thanks for any possible help.

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Reply By: Auchi(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, April 03, 2005

Any news on how to get the .ini gettin load?
I've been trien but i just cant get it :\

Max I did was gettin him to reckon one I downloaded but if I close it n re-open it wont be there anymore.
Any help would be appreciated

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Reply By: Auchi(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, April 03, 2005

Any news on how to get the .ini gettin load?
I've been trien but i just cant get it :\

Max I did was gettin him to reckon one I downloaded but if I close it n re-open it wont be there anymore.
Any help would be appreciated

Btw.. how are .bootskin's files made? That could help,since its the only way i can get him to reckon others logon's (apart from the ones that already came with the program)

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Reply By: Dan(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, April 04, 2005
Ok I did just as it says and for some reason I can find my bootskin with I load up bootskin. Any ideas?
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Reply By: Lozza(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005
just downloaded some bootscreens but cant get them to appear on the program. i have un-zipped them but I still The program still wont accept them. please could somebody help ??
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Reply By: popo(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005
kikou
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Reply By: florian werner(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, April 08, 2005
verdammt schцnes prog! selten sowas gesehen, was in die kategorie "braucht niemand aber will jeder haben" paЯt... *lol*
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Reply By: dill(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, July 12, 2005
great tut thanks alot it helped me out a bunch
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Reply By: Dxm(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Shock.... my skin doesnґt appear ......
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Reply By: hadad-madani(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, July 29, 2005
pleas help me .how doinig made
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Reply By: El Fleao(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, July 31, 2005
Why wont the BootSkin stay active? Everytime I choose one for my bootskin, it says active but when I close it and open it up again, it says its back to the default bootskin. Whats that about?
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Reply By: Welch(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, August 01, 2005
I had the same problem that "Bender The Robot" had... Anytime that I run it (shows full colors when I preview it) but when I run it for real It only shows up for me in Green, Black, and White. What in the heck is going on with it? Other than that I was able to get everything to work out flawlessly!
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Reply By: Dan(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, August 08, 2005
i dont really get how to make a bootskin.. i tried many times but i dont get it.. is ther any chance that you can help me with this...
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Reply By: Happy Brian(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, August 09, 2005
I like to sniff my cat, Mr. Muffin.
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Reply By: Spyder(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, August 09, 2005
If you are haveing problems booting after install just load in safe mode and uninstall the program. have found bootskin will not work with some OEM set ups expecialy those from Emachine. the problem was addressed on the download page when you first aquired the program
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Reply By: lucien(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, August 12, 2005
nix
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Reply By: rafael(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, August 13, 2005
veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy goodddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
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Reply By: christophe(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, August 16, 2005

hello.
i'm from belgium,so excuse my english.....
very good programme bootskin. but
i've a problem with my image background.
it's works when i preview with bootskin,my image is very good, but when windows start , windows " put" a blue background, but my image is a black background, and in preview bootskin, my image is good in black,like i make it.
i've pass by skin studio for do in 16 colors, i've do all like in the tutorial; but in start, windows change background.....??
can you help a little belgium.?
thank's a lot.

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Reply By: Knobbyman(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, August 16, 2005

I'm having issues both importing and after I add the files to their folder in the C:\Program Files\Stardock\WinCustomize\BootSkin\skins\ folder.. I do not see any files. Am I somehow missing a step?

When I try and import it only looks for the .bootskin file .. is that just a zip file with a renamed extension?

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Reply By: Immortalarena(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, August 16, 2005
I like the program and I designed a graphic I liked, I changed it around in Photoshop and then indexed it to a nice 16 colors and saved it as a bitmap on 4 bit, however, although it looks perfect in the preview of the bootskin program, when I restart the system to look at my work the image is all discolored to simply Blue and white, not the black and white/color that I get in the preview. Any suggestions?
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Reply By: Josh(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Easy, just get a translator and translate this site into Korean.
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Reply By: Andrei(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, August 24, 2005

I have a problem !!!
Please make a minute and resolvemy problem.
I downloaded SkinStudio and I followed the steps above, but when I reached at saving the bootskin background with this SkinStudio, I chosed destination folder and I clicked save, but when I opened the folder the picture wasn`t there.
I tried lots of time, but it happenes the same.

WHY THE PROGRAM DOESN`T SAVE MY PICTURE ?

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Reply By: Pollo(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, August 25, 2005

like the program and I designed a graphic I liked, I changed it around in Irfanview or photoshop and then indexed it to a nice 16 colors and saved it as a bitmap on 4 bit also tried 8, however, although it looks perfect in the preview of the bootskin program, when I restart the system to look at my work the image is all discolored to simply Blue and white or grayscale, not the colors that I get in the preview. Any suggestions?

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Reply By: s0nic69(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, August 27, 2005
is it just my computer, or are the images not appearing? will somebody email the webmaster
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Reply By: Matt(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, August 29, 2005
The pictures on this page aren't appearing. how to contact mr JoeUser?
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Reply By: xeon(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, August 31, 2005

dude ya no it doesnt load the .INI file...
coz i got the 2 pix but notin happenz when i open BOOTSKIN (my skin isnt there)=]
wa can i do now?
pleeeez help

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Reply By: Lillo(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, September 02, 2005
The pictures on this page aren't appearing. how to contact mr JoeUser?
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Reply By: Рн(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, September 13, 2005
ДгГЗєГЈЎєЬёЯРЛИПК¶ДгГЗ
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Reply By: Рн(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, September 13, 2005
ДгГЗєГЈЎєЬёЯРЛИПК¶ДгГЗ
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Reply By: gargwlas(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2005
The pictures on this page aren't appearing.
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Reply By: Matze(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, September 18, 2005
Tach wie geht's?
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Reply By: Matze(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, September 18, 2005
Tach, wie geht's?
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Reply By: Matze(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, September 18, 2005
Tach, wie geht's?
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Reply By: gl3n(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, September 19, 2005
Make sure background image is 640x480
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Reply By: GokuSonKakkarot(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, September 24, 2005
I got it to save my image quite fine. At first it wouldn't but then I added an extention like".bmp" to the filename and it saved it. So in the "File Name" field name your file then add ".bmp" or whatever extention you would like to use so for example say I want to name my file "Background" I would type "Background.bmp" into the "File Name" field and click save, simple...
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Reply By: poop(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, December 20, 2005
fuck u it doesnt wrk
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Reply By: hibbity(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, December 21, 2005
how do you use taller pictures for the progress bar. or are we limited to 22x9?
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Reply By: Disco Stu(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, December 24, 2005
Where are the images? The page looks lousy without them.
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Reply By: bteddo(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, January 06, 2006

i downloaded a file and i cant see it in the menu! its a .bootskin file.

WTF ID GOING ON!!!!??!???!

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Reply By: Cristhian(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, January 14, 2006
JAJAJAJAJAJA Fucker son of the bitch....
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Reply By: Jaguwar(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, January 21, 2006

For all the foul mouths out there, you might want to realize this original file is about THREE YEARS OLD! I'm guessing Mr. Martin isn't maintaining it anymore. Hello! Complain to the StarDock people, especially if you're using an older version of their software.

FYI, I found an even older file at
littlewhitedog.com/content-9.html
which explains all the nitty gritty on how to do it in Windows 2000. Use Google (or your favorite search engine) to find out more for another OS.

If you have the StarDock software, use the text here and some understanding from the above-mentioned site and give it a go! Good luck.

Jaguwar

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Reply By: owain(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2006
hello that stamk
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Reply By: Survivor(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, February 11, 2006

Hi there, i've got a problem too:))
Everything is correct!!!! BUT there is a bitmap "Proffessional" that is placed over my bootskin and it looks really shitty:( How can i delete it?
It's not the part of my skin file (2 bitmaps & bootskin.ini file).
I can share my skin that i've made but don't know if you people will have such a "bug"?
I've tried combinations between 1 and 0 in fields like DeleteUnused, ClearAllOverlays etc but it's not working at all:(
Please helpppppppp.................... dyin'

btw i'm using xp pro without any sp's
and have installed such a progs like bootskin, stylexp, logonstudio, skinstudio <--- could these progs took control over my bootskin display properties?

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Reply By: Survivor(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, February 11, 2006

Hi there, i've got a problem too:))
Everything is correct!!!! BUT there is a bitmap "Proffessional" that is placed over my bootskin and it looks really shitty:( How can i delete it?
It's not the part of my skin file (2 bitmaps & bootskin.ini file).
I can share my skin that i've made but don't know if you people will have such a "bug"?
I've tried combinations between 1 and 0 in fields like DeleteUnused, ClearAllOverlays etc but it's not working at all:(
Please helpppppppp.................... dyin'

btw i'm using xp pro without any sp's
and have installed such progs like bootskin, stylexp, logonstudio, skinstudio <--- could these progs took control over my bootskin display properties?

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Reply By: ???(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, February 12, 2006
Where the **** are the images?
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Reply By: nerd ...(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, February 12, 2006
when i wanna dowload a bootskin, i click on the file name (e.g ComputerCity.bootskin). When i open the file, it turns out to be a .zip file that doesn;t contain any pic file ... all it contains is a whole bunch of emtpy folders ... WTF ?!?! Am i doin something wrong ? I don't understand why there are no files in most of the avl download skins. Thanx for the help !
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Reply By: Mark Savage(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Looking at the bootskin instructions, text is ok and easy to follow but the screen dumps do not seem to be there.
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Reply By: asdf(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2006
for those who cant get this to work, simply zip up ur files (for best results, dont actually use compression, just store it). and rename "file.zip" as "file.bootskin" and then import
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Reply By: no one(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, February 19, 2006
YOU POST THINGS HERE YOU IDIOT!
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Reply By: sam(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, February 20, 2006
Thanks! that is very helpful!!!
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Reply By: Ric(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, February 27, 2006

Thanks I really like the ease of your program, and adding life to the windows screen which is really boreing.

Again thank you,
Ric

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Reply By: Ric(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, February 27, 2006

Thanks I really like the ease of your program, and adding life to the windows screen which is really boreing.

Again thank you,
Ric

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Reply By: Ric(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, February 27, 2006

Thanks I really like the ease of your program, and adding life to the windows screen which is really boreing.

Again thank you,
Ric

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Reply By: ahmed ali(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, March 03, 2006
niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Reply By: Roy Duineveld(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, March 04, 2006

I have created my boot skin. But I see him no were in the BootSkin list. Where is my boot skin???

Can some body thell me how?? I will see my bootskin in the bootskin list!! en than apply him.

Roy Duineveld

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Reply By: Daniel(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, March 05, 2006

Um Hey
Im runnin win xp pro and i apply a skin that i downloaded of the net and when i restart my computer the windows xp pro boot screen comes up instead of my custom one
whats wrong and what can i do to fix it ???
if any one knows that would be great if they helped me out

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Reply By: Dinesh(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, March 10, 2006

IMAGE CANNOT BE SEEN

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Reply By: rahman(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, August 09, 2004
Very best application
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Reply By: face sucker(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, August 07, 2004

I inAfter installing this programme and following the instructions, I also found that my yoyo was all covered in poop. Why is this? There is a nasty smell all over my hand after picking it up. Can anybody help?

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Reply By: poop covered yoyo(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, August 07, 2004
My yoyo is now covered in poop. Does anyone have any ideas how this might have happened?
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Reply By: poopy yoyo lover(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, August 07, 2004

I recently nailed my testicle to a large piece of frozen lard, i am begining to wonder if this was a good idea. Can any one help with this problem?
And also i discovered that my yoyo now has the brown stuff all over it, including sweetcorn. Can anyone provide me with an explanation as to why this has happened?
Thanks.

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Reply By: Magus_AR(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, August 15, 2004

ok well, i made my image, and progress bar, and when i open Bootskin and preview it , its looks PREFECT on the preview......

but when i restart, the bar doesnt move, and the screen turns into a solid color, but the image is still there.....wtf?

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Reply By: davap | Posted: Friday, August 13, 2004

WARNING! If you make 'ProgressBarWidth = 640' Windows will crash on startup with a 'IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL'!
I assume this is becuse it is trying to draw the ProgressBar bmp outside of the screen edge.

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Reply By: kk(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, August 11, 2004

I use your method to create a picture and a progressbar , then i write a configuration file and save it.
Afer that i put them in a folder ,putting it into the bootskins.exe'folder.
But that's no use. The bootskin can't recoginize it. It can only use the files named XXXXXX .bootskin.
I don't know how to convert it to XXXX.bootskin or pack it to XXXXX.bookskin.
HELP ME!!!!!!! Help Me and teach me!!!

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Reply By: kk(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, August 11, 2004

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I am fed up with loading other's skins.
I have been wanting to creat my own bootskins for a long time.
Thank you for teaching me how to make it.
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Reply By: 4UWithLuV | Posted: Thursday, August 12, 2004

Random BootScreens Not Working Please help
[email-masked]

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Reply By: Bashir Khademi(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, August 18, 2004

tanks For Your WebSite

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Reply By: mayhem(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, December 05, 2004

Excellent topic and even better description on how-to. Worked the first time, thanks _martin_.
After experimenting with the diff attributes I came up with : ProgressBarX = 250 ProgressBarY = 360 ProgressBarWidth = 60 This set the load progress bar at about 3/4 of the way down from the top, approximately 1 inch in length, and fairly centered.

Thanks again,

mayhem

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Reply By: Daniel Miser(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, November 30, 2004
When i load one of the bootskins it works fine but after its loaded my system running windows XP Pro reboots and i have to boot windows into safe mode and set it to the default boot screen from there
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Reply By: Michael Rolser(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, November 30, 2004
wery good manual
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Reply By: me(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Can I do it without this programmes? Can I do it only with programme for drawing? I do it only with programme for drawing ang it doesnґt work!
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Reply By: IHATEYOU(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, December 03, 2004
This toturial sucked, not once did it say the size of the images, and anything. Update it!
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Reply By: joe(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, December 13, 2004

y every time i apply for new boot skin, i can't get into window?
until i get in to safe mode to change back to default skin, then i can get in window, y?

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Reply By: kira(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, December 13, 2004

that's also on my win2k....and also with my brother on XP....the only thing you can do, is to remove the information from the .ini file regarding the progressbar (4 lines)
or you happen to like the bar , then there is nothing i know of..

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Reply By: craku(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, November 22, 2004
it`s cool
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Reply By: vince(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, November 22, 2004

HELP!!!
Any help would be appreciated, like posted comments i've read none seem to be like
the problem I am having, when I turn on the computer I get this message telling me a error occured and I need to enter in safe mode to remove the software.
I have tried everything and foolishly screwed thing up and twice had to reenter the windows
xp home edition,
How do I get this thing to work on my computer, I am only using boots I downloaded on
wincustomize, would not even attempt to make one with the problems I am having...
Do I need to change sometihng in my system for this to work???
Please help...
Vince

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Reply By: vince(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, November 22, 2004

HELP!!!
Any help would be appreciated, like posted comments i've read none seem to be like
the problem I am having, When I turn on the computer I get this message telling me a error occured and I need to enter in safe mode to remove the software.
I have tried everything and foolishly screwed thing up and twice had to reenter the windows
xp home edition,
How do I get this thing to work on my computer, I am only using boots I downloaded on
wincustomize, would not even attempt to make one with the problems I am having...
Do I need to change sometihng in my system for this to work???
Please help...
Vince

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Reply By: vince(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, November 21, 2004

Hi
Just read, thou old ..your problem on Joe User about getting Boot skins to work with xp home edition, I am going nuts with the same problem, have tried so many things that screwed up y computer and twice had to re-enter the xp program. The computer wont
boot it says "a error has occured and to remove the software or hardware.
When de-activated the computer boots..
Can you PLEASE!!! tell me if you figured it out or given any advice on how to correct.
I cant tell you how grateful I would be..
Thanks
Vince

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Reply By: vince(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, November 21, 2004

Hi
Just read, thou old your problem on Joe User about getting Boot skins to work with xp home edition, I am going nuts with the same problem, have tried so many things that screwed up y computer and twice had to re-enter the xp program. The computer wont
boot it says "a error has occured and to remove the software or hardware.
When de-activated the computer boots..
Can you PLEASE!!! tell me if you figured it out or given any advice on how to correct.
I cant tell you how grateful I would be..
Thanks
Vince

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Reply By: JSTALKER(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, November 27, 2004

Hi there,

I was wondering whether I have to take permission from the creator of a particular image in order to use it for my boot skin background.

Thanks.

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Reply By: JSTALKER(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, November 27, 2004

Hey Vince,
This might sound a bit foolish but why don't u try formatting ur system? I always do that when I have a problem that keeps on nagging me. ; )

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Reply By: Ahmed Shahein(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, November 25, 2004

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Reply By: TGOS(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Anyone found out what the type attribute is good for? And which values it accepts?
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Reply By: Elwyn(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Good tutorial, thanks!
Does anyone know a good tutorial for creating logon screens in XP??? If so, please email me at: [email-masked]
One thing i noticed which i dont think has been mentioned- the images MUST be in .bmp (well they had to be for me)
Cheerio

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Reply By: tommy(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, November 15, 2004
more pictures are needed.
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Reply By: Salvin(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, April 11, 2005

Here's how to make a bootSkin Using Photoshop

Open an image in adobe photoshop
Resize it to 640,480

Select a part in the imge of size 22 x 9 px having a constant color area
(so that you can erase the bar later with ease)

Now draw the progress bar within the block Prefably in a new layer.
Now change the color of the image to index > 15 colors (Flatten layers if any)
you can use any of the local >perpetual,adaptive,selective to best match

The border effect.:
Windows by default, applies a border all around the image.
This border is the same color as the first color in the
color palette. To swap the first color in the color palette, with another,
first copy the entire image. Open the color table swap two colors.
press ok and now paste the image.

Now select the 22 x 9 px bar and copy it
erase the bar and save the image > 4-bit bitmap
resize the image to 22 x 9 px
paste the copied image
save as > 4-bit bitmap

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Reply By: Salvin(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, April 11, 2005

I have successfully made many bootskins,
however, sometimes, in some bootskins,
1. The progressbar leaves a colored trail
behind it.
2. All the elements of the skin (including
the progress bar) are shifted some pixels.

can ne one help??

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Reply By: Shelby(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Thanks for the great help on creating bootskins. Any way to get them to show full screen during the bootup?
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Reply By: Salvin Francis(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Bootskin tutorial By SALVIN using photoshop 7.0

1. Load an image in photoshop.

3. Resize the image to 640 x 480. Image > Image size > uncheck Constrain Proportions, Width=640, height=480.

2. You probably want a long single color area to show the scroll bar. Remember that the backcolor of the
scroll bar will be used by windows to draw a border around the entire image. Also that the minimum
height of the area should be at least 9 pixels for the bar to fit within.

4. Draw the bar in the area made. Now change the color depth of the image. Image > Mode > Indexed Color.
In case you get a confirmation to flatten layers, Click ok. In the Indexed color Dialog box, Change
'Colors' to 16, 'Forced' to Black and White. Uncheck Transparency. Now select The Palette as
Local(Perceptual) or Local(Selective) or Local(Adaptive). you should even try to use The various Dither
options available. Try combinations to see what suits the image best. Click ok. For further adjustments,
go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast or Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation.

5. Now you have to ensure that the blank area previously made is indeed blank. If it contains any stray
pixels of other color, color it with a brush.

6. Copy the bar that you made within the region. Now clear the bar and save the image in a folder in the
skins directory where bootskin is installed. File > Save as >(select the folder)>format=bmp. Click save.
In the bmp Options Dialog, File Format=Windows, Depth=4 bit, uncheck Compress and Flip row order. Click
ok.

7. Resize the image to 22 x 9 pixels. Image > Canvas size > Width=22(pixels), height=9(pixels). Click ok
and then click proceed. Now paste the copied image. Save this image with another name. File > Save as
>(select the folder)>format=bmp. Click save. In the bmp Options Dialog, File Format=Windows, Depth=4
bit, uncheck Compress and Flip row order. Click ok.

8. Close All images and create the bootskin.ini file.

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In order to select the x and y coordinates and the width of the bar, Open the main image, goto View > Rulers. Right Click any of the rulers and select pixels. Click and drag the upper horizontal ruler to create a guide on the image. This guide can be adjusted to the upper extent of the bar. Use the Control
button and click and drag the guide. Now click and drag the left ruler to create the start and end guide
to signify the start and end of scroll. Now zoom in the image so that you can clearly see the numbers at
the left and top rulers. The first guide in the horizontal ruler is the value for the ProgressBarX and
the guide at the left is the value for ProgressBarY. You should subtract the value of the first guide
on the horizontal ruler from the second to find the ProgressBarWidth. Close all images without saving.

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Now for the final part. Open the main image. Select the entire image and copy it. Now open the Color table. Image > Mode > Color table and swap the first color in the table with the one in your blank area (Use common sense to do so). Save the image. Open the bar image, copy the image. Close the bar image. Resize the main image to 22 x 9 pixels. Image >
Canvas size > Width=22(pixels), height=9(pixels). Paste the bar image and overwrite the previous bar image saving this with the same name.

That's it !!!
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The reason I resized the main image and pasted the bar image over it is so that the bar image may have the same palette
as the main image. The reason I swapped the first color of the color table with the backcolor of the scroll area is that
this color will appear on screen as the progress bar moves. Also windows will use this color to draw a boundary to the image.

Email you comments to: [email-masked]
Visit my website : www.salvin.tk

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Reply By: JAI(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, April 13, 2005

THANKS A LOT MARTIN U REALY FIGURED IT OUT FOR ME

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Reply By: Cracker(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, April 18, 2005

I can't understand how 're u so stypid! U 're banging with BootSkin and all I need to do is to hack the Windows!

MM OO RR OO NN SS !!

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Reply By: Ivan(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Good screen

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Reply By: Ivan(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Good screen

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Reply By: Danz(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, April 29, 2005

I cannot believe how eay this is! I fooled my BOSS when i swapped his boot screen with that of Windows 95. He almost collapsed when he saw his computer booting to 'ol 95!!!! Thumbs up

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Reply By: rustyknight(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, April 30, 2005
I have the same problem several others have had in this forum, namely a newly created bootskin not showing up, yet I haven't seen a single answer on how to solve this problem. I followed the tutorial to the letter, it's pretty simple and straightforward, but when I bring up the BootSkins program, the skin isn't listed. I've rechecked the .ini file and it's fine, so why doesn't it show up?
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Reply By: Rodney(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, May 01, 2005

I tried using bootskin it is a great problem, but picture kept showing up blurred and someone please point me in the right direction

Thank you

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Reply By: intel620(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Hello,
I tried making a bootskin using a progress bar. I noticed that some bootskins didn't have a progress bar. It is much easier to make one without a progress bar. And you don't need SkinStudio, just use MS Paint and save in 16-bit BMP.

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Reply By: tp2489-(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, May 06, 2005

Love this tutorial~!
I wanted to make a bootskin about an Korean Scketch Comedy show^^
~NOT A RACIAL COMMENT CUZ IM KOREAN~!

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Reply By: Joshua(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, May 08, 2005

Hey Cracker,
Martin was nice enough to say that there is a way to hack WinXP, but be thankful that Martin has respect enough to keep your Windows technical support valid. excuse the shout, but MOST USERS WANT TO KEEP THE ABILITY TO RUN WINDOWS UPDATE and if you hack windows, you are no longer permitted to use Windows update. Take it from a hacker who knows all to well the conquences of hacking any version of windows and a true hater of mirosoft

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Reply By: bootxp sucks(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, May 08, 2005

bootxp sucks use bootskin
bootskin crashed my puter and had to reload winxp

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Reply By: bernard jacques(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, May 12, 2005
le seul probleme rencontrez c'est la traduction a par ce gros probleme tout va bien tout et bien
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Reply By: Free Pork(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, May 16, 2005

The preview feature in BootSkin is junk. I could get a skin with a progress bar to appear perfectly in the preview, but once I actually restart, it totally screws up. The only way I've managed to keep the progress bar (the part that moves) IN the little bar (the border for the bar in the main image) is through heavy trial and error (I have to reboot each time I want to PROPERLY see my changes). Even now, the progress bar image screws up. Perhaps I can provide a simplistic example.

Say that my progress bar image looked like this: 123

Whenever I restart, however, it looks like this: 231

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Reply By: scriptX(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Do not use BootSkin...period. Here's an outline of what happened:

1) Set skin
2) Reboot
3) See boot skin
4) Repeat 2 and 3

Had to boot into safemode and turn it off

...sounds less painful than it was, I was scared

Anyways, I wouldn't recommend this shitz0rzaksldjf892haslk.

(BTW~ Windows XP Pro SP2)

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Reply By: danny(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, May 27, 2005
where can i download this
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Reply By: mehrdad(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, May 28, 2005

12345

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Reply By: dave mackintosh(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, June 04, 2005
it is loading fine but the screen is only in about 3 colours when i used skintools to "prepare the image it still wouldnt work anyone help?
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Reply By: SpongeJosh(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, June 06, 2005
how do u save your skin as a .bootskin file? my skin won't appear in bootskin after i save the .ini file
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Reply By: Edgar(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, June 25, 2005
HELP: If my system doesn't boot because of any problem caused by the boot skin and it reboots over and over again, do i have to use safe mode? i don't wanna take any risks...i have to be sure before i try it.....
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Reply By: Jason(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, June 25, 2005

OK
-- TO SAVE THE PROGRAM USING SKINSTUDIO --

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Reply By: Jason(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, June 25, 2005

OK
-- TO SAVE THE PROGRAM USING SKINSTUDIO --

Simply download Wisdom Soft Screen Hunter and screen capture the image. Then convert it using mspaint or some other image editing software.

I found this website the other day. If you sign up and then use their browser ( a website that rotates ads ) you can get paid up to .45 cents an hour. They will send you a check when your balance reaches 25.00. All you have to do is "watch" ads. Their browser requires no interaction its like a tv. A tv can be left on when your not at home...

The site: www.surfjunky.com/?r=sangreviento

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Reply By: Aeril D' Liont(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, June 29, 2005

For those who said "..cannot save", "..cannot convert image", "..cannot do this, cannot do that"......"it's not save, crash ur machine etc...etc.

Dont all of you RTFM. All of you are lazy, stupid moron... HAS EVERYTHING BE SPOON-FEED TO YOU!!!

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Reply By: ¤Р¤Р(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, July 05, 2005

I'm sad
because I'm korean.
So I don't know hard english.
I WANT CHANGE MY WINDOWS~!

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Reply By: Bash2cool | Posted: Wednesday, July 06, 2005
what does the "Type" in the .ini file stand for?
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Reply By: Travis Hall (Number 2 Mouse)(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Well, just like every one else, I have to say that the pics on the page aren't loading for me either. But I have a more serious problem. I've created the background image and the progress bar image to specs and copied and edited an .ini file to load my images and use them. But when I start up BootSkin, it doesn't load on the list? I'm just wander'n if it's something I did wrong, or if there's a line missing from the instruction? Help would be apreciated...
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Reply By: антон(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, September 30, 2005
аыаа
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Reply By: DracroniC(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, October 01, 2005
If it doesnt show in your BootSkin list and its in the proper directory then its saved with colour settings too high.
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Reply By: Insane(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, October 04, 2005
man thnks for it, i just made 2 bootskins, one of slipknot and another from Big Orange CLown records...maggots go to "s7.invisionfree.com/BiG_oRaNgE_cLoWn/index.php?" to find out..cya ppl
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Reply By: Jon S Moss(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Anytime I choose a skin it says that is the next skin after I restart. When I finally do it is allways the same orig. micro. skin, what am I missing to change the skin perminantly?
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Reply By: Idle(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, October 05, 2005

i just spent about 20 minutes reading through this and didnt find a solution to mine and a few ppl`s problems and that is when i make my image then my ini file with or without progress bar, when i boot up my computer it has a stroke then starts up again and goes to the safe mode screen, fair is fair i did see my bootskin but surely there is a way around ur computer restarting then having to reset ur bootskin each time u log in my image should be fine its only about 10 colours looks shit but was a tester i`m going to download bootxp coz i feel this program is a little unstable
but dont get me wrong i`m not saying it sucks like so other many ppl because beggers cant be choosers if u want something to have a step by step guide and online troubleshoot help you should PAY FOR IT!!
and windows doesnt want you to change the boot screen or it would be on windows for u to change it like you can change the desktop so well done for the author getting this far after all programming is hard work.
Idle

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Reply By: adfgaf afg a(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, October 07, 2005
basszбtok meg!!!!
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Reply By: AAA(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, October 09, 2005
OOOOOO
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Reply By: raa(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2005
OOOOOOOOOOOO
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Reply By: Megastar(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, October 15, 2005
This page sux
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Reply By: ARLEY MURCIA(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, October 17, 2005
Por favor publiquen una versiуn en espaсol de su sutio, pues no entendн nada.... gracias...
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Reply By: hugh jass(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, October 19, 2005
The pics on this site dont work
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Reply By: nanang(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, October 19, 2005
I'm very very interested with these
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Reply By: Brookz(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, October 21, 2005

how come that i can't import the skin i created ?

when i go to 'File -> Import from file..' i find my folder ind wich i've placed my skin, but there are icons to click ?

- Brookz

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Reply By: fallenxemoxfairy(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, October 29, 2005
Esta pбgina no harб nada ayudarle. Lo traducirнa para usted porque hablo espaсol e inglйs, pero no hay razуn a.
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Reply By: fallenxemoxfairy(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, October 29, 2005
ya.. same thing happened with me brookz..
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Reply By: Mohammad Afzal(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, October 31, 2005
I Like it so Much but it should be more colorful.
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Reply By: ooooooo.(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, November 07, 2005
no image here!!!
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Reply By: Sanchoniathon(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Hello, all

Sorry for my bad english :s

Its is possible, to set de cycle of the animation, for a very short progression bar, in my exemple ...

ProgressBar=HAL_9000_Progress.bmp
ProgressBarX = 480
ProgressBarY = 447
ProgressBarWidth = 32
"ProgressionCycle"="Too rapid"
Screen=HAL_9000_Initialisation.bmp

Your programme is fantastic \o/

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Reply By: Hugh Jarse(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2005

First off, same as other peeps have pointed pout.....WEBBBBY, the images dont load on this page

Secondly i have a slight niggle with the program. I selected `random boot screen at start` option, however, each time i boot up it seems to only be selecting randomly from 3 skins in the file. Even though i have around 8 skins in the folder? huh? No biggy but?????

And last off this program is Kewl!
Standard BootScreens Sux0rz

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Reply By: Wil(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2005

Has anyone figured out why the progress bar has a trail behind it? Here's the boot.ini I'm using:

ProgressBar=darkangelprogress.bmp
ProgressBarX = 215
ProgressBarY = 400
ProgressBarWidth = 210

the bitmap for the progress bar is 19x20, 4-bit color depth using a Windows color pallette (the same color that is appearing in my bootscreen bmp, which displays fine). The settings for the progress bar pretty much center it up exactly underneath the logo I have on the bootscreen. I'm gonna try to use a different progress bar, like the one from the Toon bootscreen, to see if that makes a difference.

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Reply By: Schind12(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, November 25, 2005
hey martin for some reason non of your stuff works i have tryed it 1000000 times and no sucksess
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Reply By: Schins12(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, November 25, 2005
the pictures do not work this page is no help at all
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Reply By: Schind12(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, November 28, 2005
This page is nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllppppppppppppppppppppp
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Reply By: HckrAdm2005(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2005
These pictures don't load at all. This help to a point and without the picture I get lost. So this is NO HELP at all right now. fix the pictures and then it will helop me.
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Reply By: Hacker junior(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, November 30, 2005
can i use jpeg images ?
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Reply By: Joey(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, December 19, 2005
Hi there, have you ever had the problem with bootskin not working right? Like it will show the image when you start up but it won't go to the log on screen?
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Reply By: tony(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, March 16, 2006

IMAGE CANNOT BE SEEN

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Reply By: ronthedon(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, March 17, 2006
Bootskin ain't worth it. It gave me an error when I booted my computer. I had to switch to safe mode, and unistall bootskin.
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Reply By: Travis Hinton(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, March 17, 2006
Um I cant see any of the pictures so I cant figure out how to make a bootskin
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Reply By: Elliott Neal(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, March 17, 2006
HELP! I've followed what to do but when i try to load it onto the actual bootskin program an error message comes up saying "There was an error importing the skin file. Possible causes are a corrupt skin file, or a read-only skin directory." please help!!
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Reply By: Elliott Neal(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, March 17, 2006
HELP! I've followed what to do but when i try to load it onto the actual bootskin program an error message comes up saying "There was an error importing the skin file. Possible causes are a corrupt skin file, or a read-only skin directory." please help!!
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Reply By: Elliott Neal(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, March 17, 2006
HELP! I've followed what to do but when i try to load it onto the actual bootskin program an error message comes up saying "There was an error importing the skin file. Possible causes are a corrupt skin file, or a read-only skin directory." please help!!
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Reply By: Elliott Neal(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, March 17, 2006
HELP! I've followed what to do but when i try to load it onto the actual bootskin program an error message comes up saying "There was an error importing the skin file. Possible causes are a corrupt skin file, or a read-only skin directory." please help!!
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Reply By: bosman(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, March 19, 2006
pic's don't work
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Reply By: ИОµВО°(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, March 23, 2006
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Reply By: Fill(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, March 25, 2006

Hi everyone, I need help!!!
I made some downloads of Bootskins to Windows XP in wincostumize.com
However, when I try to import the file to "Bootskin", it doesn't appear in the list because it isn't *.bootskin.
What should i do???

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Reply By: nightrider(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, March 26, 2006
works great on my hp laptop zv6000 but tried it on my desktop hp a230 pav and its no go. I have to restart in safe mode and change skin to default .. any fixes? Makes my laptop stand out at work tho! thxs
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Reply By: icantgive(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, March 27, 2006
This is veryharmfull program please be aware of this program this can crash your operating system.SO PLEASE LISTEN TO ME DONT USE THIS PROGRAM AT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLl
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Reply By: forgetthat(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, March 27, 2006

this is totely faulty software dont use it...................................................

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Reply By: Tikal(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, March 30, 2006
Excelente........................Muy bueno..........................
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Reply By: nathan(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, April 05, 2006
hi, this same thing happened to me, i did all the instructions but it says it can't find a xxx.bootskin file. Please help me.
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Reply By: Smitty(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, April 06, 2006

Hey POK how did you fix your problem? Im having the same trouble if any one who knows could post a reply that'd be great thx.

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Reply By: Pyrestriker(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, April 10, 2006

I have found the reason for the boot issues. It turns out that certain display devices, particularly older AGP cards and onboard video, have driver issues that conflict with each other. That is what causes the quick blue screen that comes up, and causes an infinite boot, or lockup in some cases. Be careful when using this program! I found that out when testing my SiS AGP card, and ran this one skin. I also have found nVidea has the best driver support for this program, and I am running the GeForce 4000 right now.
As far as the skins, make sure to make your pics 16 colors, 640x480. This is the video mode that is universal, and is used for the bootup display. I doubt that anyone will read this, as the pics and everything are long gone. However, I am writing this to explain the symptoms and how you can fix them.
As far as the lagging, or reboots, try and see if you can get another video card. The one I just mentioned runs about $45.00 right now at Wal~Mart. It's not that hefty, and works great for gaming and such. It's a great investment.

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Reply By: Sandra(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, April 13, 2006

hey! dont know if anybody is still checking out this page but why cant I see the pics? I kinda need them to understand what I'm supposed to do. I hope that anybody will help me
thanx sandra

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Reply By: Toosr(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, April 21, 2006
So, I'm having a problem with this, I'm not able to choose my creation in BootSkin. tough I do have some strange empty row at the bottom of my list. What did I do wrong?
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Reply By: CT(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, April 23, 2006
Images arent showing up
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Reply By: fogel(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, April 23, 2006
Does not work.......... sorry
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Reply By: fogel(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, April 23, 2006
Does not work.......... sorry
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Reply By: gosho(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, April 25, 2006

nice work, but I found easier way - no external sotware, just changing files, and 3-4 lines at dll files
btw, I would say, that there is way of making windows to have boot logo with more that 16 colors, but i still cannot find way of doing that (I have only seen it at one LAN party...)

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Reply By: shit(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, April 27, 2006

Well, if something gets wrong with the bootskin, you should start Windows in "Save Mode", so you have to press F8 on bootup.

There you start Bootskin and set the normal Bootskin as active.

You restart and your PC should work.

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Reply By: samad(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, May 09, 2006
How to make boot skin?
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Reply By: Keros Aohco(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, May 15, 2006

I followed the set up as accurately as possible, but I'm having a problem.
The image does not appear in BootSkin. Have any idea what the problem is? Thanks in advance.

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Reply By: Hamid(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, May 19, 2006
i've mad my own windows personnal and i want that the bootscreen be installed from the forst time .... because iv' try mu bootscreen thet i've creat ....but when i restart the famous boot of windows erase my .... and that's maks me very angry ... can you help me please ! send me a copy of response to my E_mail please !
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Reply By: lccms(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, May 19, 2006
I followed your directions to create my own bootskin and it worked very well. I downloaded the free version of Star Dock Skin Studio to create the .bmp. All worked and when I opened Bootskin, my skin was there. When I preview my skin from bootskin, it looks fine. The problem is when I actually boot up and use my own skin, the picture looks terrible. Why does it look good in the preview, but so poor in the actual boot process? Is there anything I can do to improve this?
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Reply By: Some Random Guy(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, May 24, 2006
This class is f*ckin' boring. I'm outta here.
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Reply By: Some Idiot(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, May 26, 2006
I did everything it told me to do, but it still wont work.
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Reply By: jason_spazza(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, May 27, 2006
i dont get it but tell me how u do it!!!
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Reply By: buttkiss(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, May 30, 2006
me naked!!!!
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Reply By: ulrich haderer, germany, geretsried in bavaria(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, May 31, 2006

i have to say some german words: also ich bin verdammt nochmal gescheiter als ihr verkьmmerten gefiederten idioten, weil ich nicht an so nem wirren forum seit 2003 schreibe, und einzig und allein das ergebnis habe, dass absolut NICHTS dabei herauskommt.
thank you for reading these two german lines.

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Reply By: m(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, June 16, 2006
Please fix imagines.
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Reply By: Matt Lillywhite(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, June 18, 2006
does anyone know how to replace or change the VERY FIRST screen that appears when you switch on your computer? its usually one set by the manufacturer, e.g dell or hp
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Reply By: Elysium(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, June 19, 2006
It's really hard to use 16color to fix a good picture ,it would be much better if we could use 24color .
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Reply By: OVI(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, June 23, 2006

How can I find the directory of my boot skin ?
I would like to cahnge it manualy .

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Reply By: Trashbear(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Images are broken it seems.
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Reply By: tram(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, June 29, 2006
this thing sux
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Reply By: Joe Bob(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, July 06, 2006
What a load of bullshittttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
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Reply By: Joe Bob(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, July 06, 2006

Anyone that posted a comment saying they worked it out are full of SSSSSSSHHHHHHHHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT i
haven't seen a program work so crap (since a bout 5 mins earlier when i tried getting some other free shit) and be so dodgy
I had a look at some of the shit they put in files on my windows and my guess is they are fuking me around, tho I'll let my mate
have a look he's better at some shit than me though he normally agrees most of the time ( my guess is anyone that got it
to work knows how to change the boot screen manually like me)

Fuken Gimps

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Reply By: dddd(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, July 14, 2006
dddddddddddddd
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Reply By: marduk(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, July 25, 2006
or you could just use reshack, and do it yourself the easy way. open reshack, go to ntoskrnl.exe, replace image #5 with the 640x480 4bit image of your choice. figure out the progress bar yourself, it's real simple
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Reply By: mithandir(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Well the Bootskin program works for sure and works great I haven ttried the program for making custom skins. i just downloaded some skins that were close tro what I wanted and edited them in paint. Yes you can change your boot scree with resourse hacker, but with with Bootskin you can change it quickly and easily and you have the option of it booting with a random image
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Reply By: Jafo | Posted: Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Looks like this thread recently entered the Twilight Zone of National Idiot Week.

Lots of opinions....none of them based in even a semblance of reality.

To answer a few of the more sane....

640x480 4bit [16 colour] is a default format known as VGA and has been around since Adam was a pup.  It is a video format standard to 'all' graphic cards ['all' is bound to really mean 'most', as there's always someone who thinks they can do it better].

In this case, Win XP uses VGA in the boot sequence, just as your BIOS uses VGA in system startup.

You won't find a straight 'image file' to swap for a new boot image without doing one of 2 things.  Using a bootskin proggy such as the Stardock one, or manually 'hacking' a MS Dynamic Link Library [dll] with a proggy such as Reshacker.

Both methods have 'problems', or CAN have problems.

Some Proprietary Systems/BIOS simply do NOT support 'Bootskin' at all, or may, if a different version is tried....and hacking a DLL [if errors are made] can screw a boot sequence totally.

Yes, it's hard making a good-looking bootskin with 16 colours...and no, 24 would not be that much better...unless you are meaning 24 BIT.  THEN you are comparing 4bit vs 'full-colour' 24 bit, and yes the difference is massive.

IF you succeed in creating a 4bit/16 colour image...AND it looks great in preview BUT it looks like crap in reality [loading] THEN your progress bar image does NOT have the same palette as your main image.

If your 2 images ARE using the same 4bit/16 colour palette THEN the reality will match the preview.

If your newly made bootskin does not appear in the list - close the proggy and restart.  Check that the 'name' in your ini file is the name of the folder it's installed/created in.

A 'typical' boot's ini file...

[BootSkin]
Type=0
Name = "Schumi"
Author = "Paul Martin (Jafo)"
Description = "Australian F1 GrandPrix"
ProgressBar=Progress.bmp
ProgressBarX = 259
ProgressBarY = 379
ProgressBarWidth = 122
Screen=Michael.bmp

The bootskin archive is 'Scumi.bootskin' which is, BTW simply a zip file renamed....[Schumi.zip becomes Schumi.bootskin], and the folder it would be in would be 'Schumi' during its creation.  [This one's 2 and a half years old].

For those asserting WE are 'full of shit' if we manage to get a bootskin to work may I suggest self-administering Laxettes?...

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Reply By: Jafo | Posted: Tuesday, August 01, 2006

640x480 4bit [16 colour] is a default format known as VGA and has been around since Adam was a pup. It is a video format standard to 'all' graphic cards ['all' is bound to really mean 'most', as there's always someone who thinks they can do it better].

Forgot to add...I used to have a 22 inch monitor...huge bugger, too...problem was it was a 'Fixed Frequency' monitor.....and what that [simply] meant was it actually could NOT display VGA, not without a special card.  Its minimum was 800x600 [called XGA].  It made dealing with BIOS/boots/etc [and game installs/setups] a REAL pain....- guessing with a blank screen [or hot-swapping to a second monitor].

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Reply By: Desert Fox | Posted: Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Nice job!! I kind of stuck on the Pirated Edition but will get these to switch now and then. Thanks.
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Reply By: Zubaz | Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Then renamed the ini file to a .bootskin

The ini stays an ini. Zip everything then rename the .zip to .bootskin

You should be done then

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Reply By: Gaurav(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, August 23, 2006
how to creat high resulution boot skin
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Reply By: Herra Tohtori(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Okay, first of all you really don't need Stardock's SkinStudio - provided that you know what to do with a real image manipulation program.

Actual image manipulation programs create much much better 16 colour pictures than SkinStudio. The only thing you need to take care of is that you use the exact same colour palette to both progress bar AND the actual image.

The colour palettes have certain values for certain colours. The VGA screen can display 16 different colours at a time. If there's 16 colours in base picture and some more in progress bar, there's too many of them, which results in distorted colours, if you're lucky. If you're unlucky you don't see any picture at all.

If you don't know how to save a palette, you can do like this: if you have some black areas in the main picture, place the progress bar unit onto that empty black area before you convert the image into 16 colour image.

When you have converted the image, both the progress bar and the picture are surely converted into excact same colour palette, because they are in the same picture at this point.

Now you need to copy the progress bar away from the empty area and save the 16 colour main image as, say, Image.bmp. Now, resize this picture into, for example, 22x9 size. Then paste the previously copied progress bar part onto this resized picture, and save as Progress.bmp.

This is a very sure way to have both files in same colour palette.

And as for the question "How to creat high resolution boot skin", you can't. 640x480x16colours is the maximum supported resolution in this case, which is shame, because older Windows's could show 256 colour boot images...

What I would hope for newer releases of BootSkin program is that they enabled higher than 9 pixels high progress bars.

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Reply By: JCN(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, August 27, 2006
Using a new Toshiba Sattellite Notebook the boot-screen comes on at first then a quick blue screen for a second followed by start windows in a normal orother way, usually I then start it in the normal way. On my PC at home it works, but still haven't figured out for my notebook yet............
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Reply By: initiatedsean441 | Posted: Sunday, August 27, 2006
I had the same experience recently JC after having to do a 'restore' on my Satelite Notebook...had to give up on both Logon Studio + Bootskins but figured it was because of either Microsoft Windows strict GDI security patches or a Vista Customization Suite I installed but the Suite is well worth the opportunity cost; Logon + Boot DID work flawlessly on my Toshiba for a yr - see the thread from yesterday re Bootskins & Logon Studio not working in the Windows XP category
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Reply By: danny(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, September 09, 2006

Hey Guys,
i need some help witht the 16 colour bit.
I have uploaded the images to the files etc....
and when i select it then load it up,
The Boot skin appears, but it is like a green colour, not what it should be.
Please can u guyts help me
Cheers
Danny

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Reply By: Bichur | Posted: Saturday, September 09, 2006

need some help witht the 16 colour bit.

4bit = 16 colour

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Reply By: BLeeKM(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, September 17, 2006

Hey, first i sorry for my english
I have problem with progress cycle... i want progress in my bootskin like progress in oryginal bootscreen in win2000pro...
How can i create that progress ? Is this possible ?

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Reply By: Frodo(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, September 23, 2006
Hey leute suche jmd der deutsch kann.. ICQ: 236801817
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Reply By: Larry Garing(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, September 26, 2006
I created a couple of boot screens with stardock's skin studio and i have saved the files in the bootskin\skins directory each in there own directory however bootskin does not show these when it loads up i have even shutdown the computer and rebooted however still nothing i have checked everything i know to check is there something i am doing wrong or am i just not going to be able to use this program to install my own boot screens with?
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Reply By: Bichur | Posted: Wednesday, September 27, 2006

y'all do realize this post is almost 3 yrs old?

Stardock created a Bootskin Forum.

Starting a post there with your question may get more results since a lot of people will figure it's just another spam bot reviving an old thread.

BLeeKM:

I believe your progress bar has to use the same 4bit colors as the pic

Larry Garing:

what file extension did you save as?

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Reply By: Larry Garing(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, September 27, 2006
One of them has a progress bar from one of the other boot skins i have that works fine the other has no progress bar nor does it mention it in the ini file and i have saved the files as bmp just like the other files that work in the program. Thanks for the heads up on the forum i wasnt aware there was one i havent done a custom boot screen in a few years and when service pack 2 came out and pretty much killed my skin i gave it up until the other day when i saw that stardock has a program to do it.
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Reply By: Shibak Thomas(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, October 11, 2006
hi, this same thing happened to me, i did all the instructions but it says it can't find a xxx.bootskin file. Please help me.
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Reply By: toenails toenails(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, October 12, 2006
Followed the instructions word for word. It doesn't work on my system. This sucks, this page should be updated to say which goddamn versions of windows it works with.
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Reply By: Jafo | Posted: Thursday, October 12, 2006

Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Says it right from the start....

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Reply By: Andy(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, October 22, 2006

BSOD on Windows Media Center. Thank God it didn't blue screen going into Safe mode.

Anyways cool software but BSOD's tell me to not push my luck

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Reply By: chaz(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, October 28, 2006
its buggy. always reverts back to default boot screen.
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Reply By: Zubaz | Posted: Saturday, October 28, 2006

This sucks, this page should be updated to say which goddamn versions of windows it works with.

Bootskin is *VERY* dependent on the BIOS of your Motherboard. It's not a problem withthe app, its a problem with the board. It's also one of the reasons that bootskin is not supported by Stardock, too much hassle for an app with a limited market.

It didn't cost you anything, relax.

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Reply By: Asterix(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, November 01, 2006

When are the developers going to realise that people actually enjoy hassle free installations. Especially when the system can be compromised.
I would rather not play and reap the consequences.

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Reply By: Fuzzy Logic | Posted: Wednesday, November 08, 2006
And when will users realise that 'free' and 'unsupported' mean exactly that. No-one has any right to expect this to work as it is, just feel fortunate if it does.
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Reply By: dw(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, November 10, 2006
tried as per instructions, all looks good but will not load, need walk through. when using skin studio i go to save and it tries to delete files so instead i made up file containing both the items needed in 16 color and edited the ini file as suggested now where do i go from there...tried to go to instal from file but it does not recognize the bitfile.
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Reply By: Anonymous User(Anonymous User) | Posted: Sunday, November 12, 2006
Thank you!
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Reply By: Konstantin(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Hello!
What values the variable ' Type ' can have? The Version of the program 1.05а. I saw values only 0 and 16. Whether It is possible to choose a mode of 256 colors and more?

(It is typed by means of the translator. Please answer without the use of a slang!)

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Reply By: KiloKrash | Posted: Wednesday, November 15, 2006

s possible to choose a mode of 256 colors and more?

No. Only 4-bit (16 colors) are allowed. It's a Kernel restraint.

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Reply By: Mahendra(Anonymous User) | Posted: Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Hello Sir/Madam,

yesterday i found your software through surfing on google but after installation when i restart my pc then after new boot screen my pc was again restart hence my pc not working with this software. this is a very good software for make our pc different & i want to use it but how? please help me.

with regards,
Mahendra

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Reply By: christian(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
i've never had a problem using other bootskins i have downloaded. with my own bootskin tho, bootskin won't show it in the list. my ini 'name' matches the folder name, i've even zipped the folder and renamed it to a bootskin. bootskin says 'Import Suceeded' but still doesn't show it in the list. Someone have any ideas? I've saved out my bitmaps as 16bit photoshop cs2 default and as 16bit X4 R4 G4 B4 neither seem to work. Any input would be awesome...
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Reply By: KiloKrash | Posted: Thursday, November 30, 2006

my ini 'name' matches the folder name,

The .ini needs to be labeled as "bootskin.ini". Not your folder name.

I've saved out my bitmaps as 16bit photoshop cs2 default and as 16bit X4 R4 G4 B4 neither seem to work.

It doesn't work because the images need to be 4-bit (16 colour).

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Reply By: frstdstrm(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, December 01, 2006
Ive created a bootskin, bootskin recognises it and will preview it but when i apply it and restart my pc evrythin all the colour is the same red. help pleaz
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Reply By: KiloKrash | Posted: Friday, December 01, 2006

Ive created a bootskin, bootskin recognises it and will preview it but when i apply it and restart my pc evrythin all the colour is the same red. help pleaz

Both the screen imgage and the progress image MUST have the same "Color Table". If they don't have the same 16 colors, then the image color gets messed up upon application. Once you have converted your Screen image, save that color table, then load that table into the progress image.

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Reply By: frstdstrm(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, December 01, 2006
how u do that ???
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Reply By: KiloKrash | Posted: Friday, December 01, 2006

Here's a tutorial using Photoshop that will explain everything in detail...

Bootskin Tutorial

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Reply By: fstdstrm(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, December 02, 2006
what if i dont hav photoshop?
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Reply By: Murthy(Anonymous User) | Posted: Friday, December 08, 2006
The thing you done is a nice artical but i wonder that how could you do this
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Reply By: Howie(Anonymous User) | Posted: Saturday, December 16, 2006
my bootskin ive bin workin seems to work fine on preview but when i apply it and restart windows about 1/3 of the bootskin has been cut off the left side and put on the right, anyone no how to stop this??
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Reply By: Colinize(Anonymous User) | Posted: Monday, December 18, 2006
I have the same colour table, but can the progress bar have less colour but still using the colour table? I tried lot of ways including using the same colour table, but when I boot everything seems to appear in the wrong colour. (like everybody else)
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Reply By: KiloKrash | Posted: Monday, December 18, 2006

Ihave the same colour table, but can the progress bar have less colour but still using the colour table? I tried lot of ways including using the same colour table, but when I boot everything seems to appear in the wrong colour.

The color table from your Screen Image is the color table you need to use for the Progress bar image. Once you have the palette imported/loaded to the progress bar, you have to use 1 or all of the sixteen colors of the imported/loaded palette/color table.

Your bootskin is appearing wrong becuase both palette's don't match. Make certain you are using the same colors as the 16 in the screen images palette. Just imporing the palette and then choosing a random color isn't going to work. This will change the progress bar's palette.

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Reply By: hjc(Anonymous User) | Posted: Thursday, December 21, 2006
my bootskin ive bin workin seems to work fine on preview but when i apply it and restart windows about 1/3 of the bootskin has been cut off the left side and put on the right, anyone no how to stop this??
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Reply By: Dan(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, December 27, 2006

************************************************
HOW TO FIX COLOR PROBLEMS USING PHOTOSHOP
************************************************

a lot of people have been having color table problems and here's how to fix it.

1. Open both images in photoshop
2. Do "Image>Mode>RGB Color" for both images
3. In the background image, do "Image>Mode>Indexed Color"
4. For "Palette", choose one of the choices that lets you specify the number of colors ("Master (Perceptual)" and "Master (Selective)" seem to work best.)
5. Enter 16 for Colors, and UNCHECK transparency
6. Click OK, and open the progress image
7. Do "Image>Mode>Indexed Color", but under palette, select "Previous"
8. Save both images as 4-bit bitmaps

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Reply By: Dan(Anonymous User) | Posted: Wednesday, December 27, 2006
i'm sure the method is similar for other programs
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