Tutorial:How to change boot screen

Some people are "Unique ". So my this post is for that "Unique" people.
In this post i will be telling you how to personalize your computer by adding your custom boot screen.

Windows XP Bootscreen

So here we go


What you need 

1. A PC to test upon
2. An app named " Bootskin "(download here )
3. Microsoft Paint (which would be already installed on your PC)
4. Your custom image which you want to use as  your bootscreen
5. Microsoft Notepad (Preinstalled or any other text editor )

STEP 1

After downloading the "BOOTSKIN" application from the above link

Install the "BOOTSKIN" application on your system.

After Installing the app properly proceed to the next step

STEP 2

Note : For your Bootscreen to work it should be strictly  have the attributes 640 x 480 pixels  and must be saved as 16 color bitmap (.bmp extension).

Now open up your image or create one in Microsoft Paint.

Then from the upper bar go to Image>>attributes.. (or you can simply press ctrl+E)

Then as i told above put Width>> 640 and Height>>480 for more clear information see the image below.

Select File option from upper bar and select save as

Now save this image as 16 color bitmap as show below 

STEP 3

Now open Note pad (or your text editor) and copy and paste this code below :

[BootSkin]
Type=0
Name= “Tech To Check”
Author= “Karan Kathuria via techtocheck.blogspot.in”
Description = “bootskin”
ProgressBar=progress.bmp
ProgressBarX = 244
ProgressBarY = 248
ProgressBarWidth = 150
Screen=cj1.bmp

You can change the " name " and "author" but make sure what ever you type ,it should be in double quotes.

And now save this file as "bootskin.ini".See image below

STEP 4

Last and final step is to put the two files that is "bootskin.ini " and image into a zip file that is you have to compress it or you can even use Winrar by and select .zip from there instant of .rar in option in winrar,

Now after compressing your image and bootskin.ini file in a zip file , rename the extension from .zip to .bootskin of your compressed file .

And you are done with the bootscreen creation now finally double click on the file you just created and select option "Apply"

And you are done!

If you want help just send me your pictures and i will create a bootscreen for you !

My email id is :k.kathuria@yahoo.co.in

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