Windows Vista Boot Screen


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Well, the black & white "LONGHORN" boot screen for Beta 1 was getting kinda old and boring... So I figured I'd make my own boot screen. Nothing fancy, but it's better than the original one...

bootvistapreview.png

EDIT- Get it here!

(Note to people who are wondering: This is a boot screen for Longhorn/Vista Beta 1, not Windows XP)

Post comments or suggestions!

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Does anyone know is they're planning on updating the boot screen to more than 16 colors?

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Wow... That would be amazing if they did that.

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Wow... That would be amazing if they did that.

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I agree. Other operating systems have been doing it for seven years, eight years? Microsoft coming into the 21st century would be quite amazing indeed.

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Do people really customize thier bootscreens still?

It's something you see once in a while for about 2 seconds. What's the point?

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I never thought of that :laugh: Why do we even worry about our boot screen..?

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That's nice.

Does anyone know is they're planning on updating the boot screen to more than 16 colors?

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Yes, they'll do that! Maybe in beta 2....

Maybe someone know the "banimres.dl" from longhorn build 4074? This file got the ressources of a new bootscreen with 24 bit colordeep! The new bootscreen is using lddm and it could be enabled in 4074!

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Question about this bootscreen though. Shouldn't it have the flag with highlights in the center of the cross? That's the XP flag. ;)

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Question about this bootscreen though. Shouldn't it have the flag with highlights in the center of the cross? That's the XP flag. ;)

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Well, here the Vista logo in 16 colors. I don't have Vista so I can't make it.

WinVista_v_Web.bmp

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Just for comparison what did NT look like (workstation)?

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The bootscreen? It was just a blue screen, much like a kernel exception error... nt4bootscreen.jpg

An interesting note, although all of Windows 4.0 (Non-NT) supported 256 color bootscreens, Windows 2000 only supported 16 colors. Unfortunately that is one thing Windows XP kept. Ahh well, it's only onscreen for few seconds!

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Question about this bootscreen though. Shouldn't it have the flag with highlights in the center of the cross? That's the XP flag. ;)

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Yeah, I know... I tried a vista flag but it looked REALLY ugly in 16 color mode.. I'll try yours, Angel Blue01.

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I actually modified my bootscreen to WizeXP :p.. And it is nicer than having to look at Windows XP all the time. I mean, unless you were talented and changed your bootscreen right away with XP, then you looked at that thing for a while.

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That's one good funny bootscreen *doesn't install it because he doesn't have Vists*

Oh yeah, that site where you got the screenshot, early Windows 2000 boot screen!

nt5beta2.jpg

XP Beta 2 actually had a pretty neat one as well:

boot.gif

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