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Welcome, this site is dedicated to anyone that has ever wanted to change your windows 2000 startup logo. If you have ventured out to do this before, I'm sure you came to the conclusion that it is nearly impossible (unless hacking windows system files is your fancy of course). This took me a good 25 solid hours to figure out....i'll explain how when I have the energy ;)

But for now...the basics...

First, to actually modify your original startup logo you need a good resource editor. I recommend Resource Hacker it's small, and perfect for the job.

Once you have a resource editor that can open executables, open up ntoskrnl.exe in your WINNT\SYSTEM32 dir. Look at the first bitmap resource in the file. This is what you are going to be replacing. I should note that the Windows 2000 startup bitmap is 640x480x16 colors, exciting, huh?

Anyway, mod the bitmap to your liking using whatever bitmap editor you wish...just make sure to save it in 16 colors (ms paint is good for this). Now you gotta replace the bitmap in ntoskrnl.exe with the image you have created...with resource hacker it's easy....

Ok...so once you got the bitmap replaced you're going to want to export the new ntoskrnl.exe file to a temp dir somewhere for safe keeping. Now it's time to patch...

Download this program to patch sfcfiles.dll. This is a dll file in your WINNT\SYSTEM32 dir which stores the named of the DLL files which System File Checker (SFC) keeps track of. The point of this patch is to stop SFC from putting back the old ntoskrnl.exe when we put out modded one in. It changes all references to ntoskrnl.exe to ntoskrnn.exe. Why? Because thats what i felt like at the time ~:p

Anywho, now that sfcfiles.dll is patched, you can copy your new ntoskrnl.exe file which you saved earlier over the actual file in your system32 dir. Should have no problems here....And you are now one step away from being done.

Final step. Download this program which will patch your NT boot manager (NTLDR). I know, that sounds a little scary. But all the patch does it patch a single byte in the file to trick it into thinking ntoskrnl.exe is in fact the right file. If you are worried about messing up your install at all just back up your files. (this goes for the other patch as well).

So now you've got NTLDR all patched up. You're done! Now reboot and see just how bad your computer is messed up. And then you can e-mail me and ask me what went wrong =) Good luck...

If you have a comment, question, better idea, discovery, or for god sakes! a personal revelation-email me.

-bmxer


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