How to change Windows XP boot screen
Custom Windows Boot Screen
You can create a boot screen with paint or any other general picture creator.
First, Create your picture (It can only be 16 colors or less)
Once you create the picture, save it to the Windows Directory as boot.Bmp
Next, right click on My Computer or go into control panel and double-click on system, or if you want to be like a pro, press the windows key and Pause/Break keys on your keyboard.
Once you are in the system properties, click advanced and under startup and recovery, click settings.
You will then see default operating system. Under that click the edit button (this will edit your boot.Ini file, so you may want to back it up) go all the way to the end of the line that reads something similar to: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect ( this may be slightly different for you)
At the end of that line put a space and then type /bootlogo /noguiboot and then save.
You have now created and implemented your own boot screen
-reply by Nick
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