Start Screen - Animated backgrounds question

3,389 · November 7, 2013

Hi all,

Sorry if this was already asked before, as I couldn't find info on this on the forum or web so far.

So...

1. Does anyone know where these backgrounds live inside Windows?

2. Does someone know how to create these?

3. Can these things be synced if one would make it's own?

Any tips, links etc. are very welcome.

cheers!

rob

11,890 · November 10, 2013

These images live in %windir%/system32/imageres.dll > RCData and can be accessed using Resource Hacker.

The files are mostly in PNG format - however, viewing and editing them, much less integrating custom files, appears less than straightforward.

Obviously, if you do find a way to edit the resources, the changes wouldn't be synced across different computers.

6,202 · November 10, 2013

I was wondering the same thing myself a few days ago! :D

September 15, 2014

could somone that has windows 8.1 get the png's that make the animated start screens from the imageres.dll and post them please? thanks

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