no1 Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 (edited) Hey folks, Thought you might be interested in being the first to get hold of a small tool I whipped up - Vista Boot Logo Generator! It basically takes the hard work out of generating the new high res 800x600 & 1024x768 24-bit colour boot screens, so you can spend more time creating your works of art :-) You can get it here: Vista Boot Logo Generator v1.1 It is still very much a beta, so use at your own risk. Have fun :-) Cheers, Dan UPDATE: v1.1 is now out which fixes a blank screen bug that some people were experiencing. Edited January 14, 2007 by no1 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
S3V3N Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 OMG, Thank you very much ^^ Downloading now Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588195526 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenin91 Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Hmm.. waiting for x64. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588195542 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izlude Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 hhmmmm *downloads and tries it* Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588197690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izlude Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 Izlude said: hhmmmm *downloads and tries it* wow it worked :D thanks man! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588200013 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 That's a pretty cool app, thanks! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588200279 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Protoss Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Lenin91 said: Hmm.. waiting for x64. Same here... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588200368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambroos Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Should work for x64... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588201351 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Blue01 Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 I thought the Vista boot screen was 640x480 16 colors Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588201995 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenin91 Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Ambroos said: Should work for x64... keine neine... k ... no it doesnt, it says when launching >=O Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588204172 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code.Red Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Angel Blue01 said: I thought the Vista boot screen was 640x480 16 colors It is, but there is a NOGUIBOOT option you can check, and that loads a different full color screen. There's no animation, but it looks a hell of a lot better. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588204225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
no1 Posted January 14, 2007 Author Share Posted January 14, 2007 Thank you to all those who sent in bug reports! I've updated the tool to v1.1 (the updated link is in the original post). For all those who are using an x64 version of Vista, I'm afraid I don't have an x64 capable machine so I've no way of testing at the moment! If someone could send me the winload.exe.mui file in their Windows\System64\en-US directory, I'll certainly take a look and see if I can patch it. Cheers, Dan Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588226524 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluespy Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Waiting x64 version~~ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588233376 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azz0r_wugg Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Excellent, now to find the boot gui thread where people made awesome mock ups. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588233398 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FR1908 Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 I also really would like to see a x64 version of this!. I attached the requested file. Let me know if its not the right file or if you need another file. Vista Version 6.0 (Build 6000) I renaimed the file to txt. Otherwise i couldn't upload it. winload.txtFetching info... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588237866 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Blue01 Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Is there any harm in using the NOGUIBOOT option? I love the ability make and change bootscreens easily! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588238783 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted January 19, 2007 Veteran Share Posted January 19, 2007 Very nice application. I'm using this very simplistic bootscreen: Angel Blue01 said: Is there any harm in using the NOGUIBOOT option? I love the ability make and change bootscreens easily! No, but if any boot time process such as CHKDSK were to run a task before booting into Windows, you won't be able to see its progress. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588240238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
no1 Posted January 19, 2007 Author Share Posted January 19, 2007 FR1908 said: I also really would like to see a x64 version of this!. I attached the requested file. Let me know if its not the right file or if you need another file. Vista Version 6.0 (Build 6000) I renaimed the file to txt. Otherwise i couldn't upload it. THANK YOU! You're the only person who has actually taken the time to send in the file :rofl: I'll take a look and see what I can do. Has anyone actually been able to manually patch their 64bit boot screens so far??? I assume it's a similar process? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588241418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediaSoldier Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 can i get your boot screen please rm20010 :D ? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588243510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted January 20, 2007 Veteran Share Posted January 20, 2007 Godsmack said: can i get your boot screen please rm20010 :D ? Open the attachment with Paint and save as BMP. ;) Here's another one with just the Vista orb (extracted from authui.dll) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588243621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediaSoldier Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 thats nice man you got the 800x600 versions for these too? I dont have photoshop or anything at the moment. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588246270 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iguanadon Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 Godsmack said: thats nice man you got the 800x600 versions for these too? I dont have photoshop or anything at the moment. if you wanted you could try paint.net :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588246581 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Live Veteran Posted January 21, 2007 Veteran Share Posted January 21, 2007 Angel Blue01 said: Is there any harm in using the NOGUIBOOT option? I love the ability make and change bootscreens easily! No - it probably would have been the default except that some systems (either vid card or BIOS) messes things up and displays the image in low-color, making it look like crap. Also multi-mon or multi-card systems tend to display an uglified version on secondary screens, in my personal experience. But for most modern systems it looks fine - and in the cases where it looks uglier, it doesn't cause any actual problems other that looking ugly. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588246593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted January 21, 2007 Veteran Share Posted January 21, 2007 Here you go. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588246656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediaSoldier Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 Thank you so much! :wub: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/527262-vista-boot-logo-generator/#findComment-588247706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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