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From: thanatoid on 22 Jan 2010 18:30
Steve Swift <steve.j.swift(a)gmail.com> wrote in
news:#hWBDp5mKHA.5528(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:

> My employer has just replaced my old PC with a newer one.
> During the boot process, after the VGA screen with the
> progress bar, a bitmap C:\WINDOWS\blueback.bmp is
> displayed. It is the Corporate Logo. I prefer the standard
> XP boot behaviour.

<SNIP>

There are several image viewers with a basic function to let you
choose any format image file (which ideally - so it looks good -
should be the /exact/ pixel dimensions of your resolution),
convert it to BMP and set it as your wallpaper until YOU change
it. Messing with the registry especially in XP, especially with
wallpapers, for some reason, is very bizarre.

So get one of those and use it.

Or a wallpaper utility. Wallsmart is a super simple and
excellent one.
Butt-ugly icons but you can change them with Resource Hacker or
Resource Tuner.

http://www.bumpersoft.com/Desktop_Enhancements/Wallpaper/Utiliti
es/D_289_index.htm

or

http://www.bumpersoft.com/Desktop_Enhancements/Wallpaper/Utiliti
es/
if you want to have LOTS of choices...

To make the text under icons transparent you need to enable
"show shadow under icon text" (or something like that) in
Control Panel.

--
The arrows are faster than rodents!
- t.
From: thanatoid on 23 Jan 2010 15:17
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG(a)soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote in
news:G1mwrViLCwWLFwkM(a)soft255.demon.co.uk:

> In message <Xns9D08B259FE120thanexit(a)188.40.43.245>,
> thanatoid <waiting(a)the.exit.invalid> writes:

<SNIP>

> 1. Since it's his employer's machine, they may have locked
> him out from the normal wallpaper-changing route. (In which
> case I'm surprised he has access to the relevant registry
> key either.) 2. I don't think he's talking about the normal
> desktop wallpaper anyway, that is on the desktop during
> normal operation, but something that occurs during the boot
> sequence. If you reread his OP, he talks about "black for a
> few seconds" (or something like that) after he'd deleted
> something, not the final state.

There are more than one contradictions in his post. He does not
know the correct terminology. But you'd be surprised how many
people can't tell the difference (let alone use the correct
terminology between the BIOS sequence and OS starting up.

I gave him some advice anyway - what the hell. I am certainly
not going to get into discussing how to change the BIOS boot
screen which can only be done on SOME machines and is a major
PITA.

<SNIP>

--
The arrows are faster than rodents!
- t.
From: Tim Meddick on 24 Jan 2010 18:12
The picture displayed is merely the one specified by the registry value for the
default wallpaper :

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper"="C:\WINDOWS\blueback.bmp"

Simply locate this value in the registry using [regedit.exe] and change it to what
you want.

The original value in XP for this is the word "none" which makes Windows display just
the light-blue background to the welcome screen with no writing.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"thanatoid" <waiting(a)the.exit.invalid> wrote in message
news:Xns9D08B259FE120thanexit(a)188.40.43.245...
> Steve Swift <steve.j.swift(a)gmail.com> wrote in
> news:#hWBDp5mKHA.5528(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:
>
>> My employer has just replaced my old PC with a newer one.
>> During the boot process, after the VGA screen with the
>> progress bar, a bitmap C:\WINDOWS\blueback.bmp is
>> displayed. It is the Corporate Logo. I prefer the standard
>> XP boot behaviour.
>
> <SNIP>
>
> There are several image viewers with a basic function to let you
> choose any format image file (which ideally - so it looks good -
> should be the /exact/ pixel dimensions of your resolution),
> convert it to BMP and set it as your wallpaper until YOU change
> it. Messing with the registry especially in XP, especially with
> wallpapers, for some reason, is very bizarre.
>
> So get one of those and use it.
>
> Or a wallpaper utility. Wallsmart is a super simple and
> excellent one.
> Butt-ugly icons but you can change them with Resource Hacker or
> Resource Tuner.
>
> http://www.bumpersoft.com/Desktop_Enhancements/Wallpaper/Utiliti
> es/D_289_index.htm
>
> or
>
> http://www.bumpersoft.com/Desktop_Enhancements/Wallpaper/Utiliti
> es/
> if you want to have LOTS of choices...
>
> To make the text under icons transparent you need to enable
> "show shadow under icon text" (or something like that) in
> Control Panel.
>
> --
> The arrows are faster than rodents!
> - t.

From: Steve Swift on 25 Jan 2010 02:48
thanatoid wrote:
> Steve Swift<steve.j.swift(a)gmail.com> wrote
>> My employer has just replaced my old PC with a newer one.
>> During the boot process, after the VGA screen with the
>> progress bar, a bitmap C:\WINDOWS\blueback.bmp is
>> displayed. It is the Corporate Logo. I prefer the standard
>> XP boot behaviour.

> There are several image viewers with a basic function to let you
> choose any format image file

I found that deleting the registry entry HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control
Panel\Desktop\wallpaper (which was pointing to blueback.bmp) caused the
default XP behaviour to come back � the screen "Windows is starting" now
appears in my boot sequence between the "VGA" phase and the Welcome Screen.

Note: This is nothing whatsoever to do with desktop backgrounds (or
wallpapers if you like).

--
Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
http://www.ringers.org.uk
From: Steve Swift on 25 Jan 2010 02:53
Tim Meddick wrote:
> The original value in XP for this is the word "none" which makes Windows
> display just the light-blue background to the welcome screen with no
> writing.

Aha! This was what I wanted. Thank you.

I found (by trial and error) that having this entry, but not actually
pointing at an existing file, the "Windows is starting" screen didn't
appear, which gave me a longish period looking at a blank black display.

I deleted the entry, and the "Windows is starting" screen came back.

I've now put the entry back, as "none". I'll wait until my next forced
restart to see what happens as I've just fixed a problem (soundcard
driver) that was causing me to reboot every day, and I'm relishing a
reboot-free period. :-)

--
Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
http://www.ringers.org.uk
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