[Coco] Microsoft files for patent on "modular operating system"

[Brian Blake]

I'll check the Blinds settings and see if that has something to do with it. Beyond that, I really don't care. The OS/2 Warp screen really messes with peoples minds... 


Brian

----- Original Message ----
From: Torsten Dittel <Torsten at Dittel.info>
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Sent: Friday, February 2, 2007 2:24:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Microsoft files for patent on "modular operating system"

Brian Blake schrieb:
 
> It's possible. I know the version I have has Blinds and Bootskins as separate entities, but, that does not mean thae certain themes do not change the boot splash screen.

Without knowing a lot about it, BootSkin does not patch or replace the
XP *kernel* (ntoskrnl.exe?) like other utilities do (and which doesn't
sound to be a good idea at all) but is loading a certain .dll to change
the splash screen. Maybe you could look for this file (wasn't able to
google its name again) on your system. Or you'll find something like:

[BootSkin]
Type=0
Name = "filename"
Author = "Your Name"
Description = "none"
ProgressBar=progress.bmp
ProgressBarX = 210
ProgressBarY = 80
ProgressBarWidth = 220
Screen=filename.bmp

in one of the systems .ini files.


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