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                          eXpLoIt Mihir's guide for changing
                         Startup/Shutdown logos in Win98/98SE
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(Tested under WINDOWS98SE condition) 

When a computer with Win98 boots up, its start up splash image is displayed. Also when it shuts
down, the two images are displayed 1)Windows is shutting down 2)It's now safe to turn off your
computer.

(NOTE-Second is not for ATX computer.)

These images cannot be easily changed, but wiser like you can change them easily!

These special images are in following folders.

    Type                     Name                Location      Attribute             
 1) Startup image            logo.sys            c:\           Hidden, Read only
 2) Shutting down iamge      logow.sys           c:\windows    Hidden	
 3) It's now safe to
    turn off your computer   logos.sys

If you are doing this for first time, logo.sys does not exist.

Though these images are ends with sys extession, images are in 
standard Windows Bitmap Format (*.bmp)

Information of all above images:

  Dimensions      320*400 pixels
  Pixels/inch
  (Resolution)    72
  Colors          256

Though these images are 320 pixels are in width, they are strectched to 640 pixels in windows 
operations.(startup/shutdown)

***You can browse through these files only when folder options are set to show all files.
   Folder options can be changed in C:\ window's MENU > View > Folder options


****CAUTION*****-You must copy above files, before changing them.

1)Changing Startup Logo
    1.You can use your favourite image editor(or Jasc Paint Shop Pro 6 like me)
    2.Create new image with 640x400 pixels with 256 colors and 72 pixels/inch.
    3.Edit it with your own way(create backgroud, add texts cliparts, etc.)
    4.After editing resize it to 320x400 pixels (or stretch width by 50%)
    4.Save it with name start.bmp with plain windows BMP format.
    5.You can manually copy it as c:\logo.sys. But it is more difficult as this file is hidden.
      You can use the XrX's logo utiliy which is provided by me. Start the software, press Load,
      Locate your image file, the file will get loaded. Then press install, select Startup logo
      option. Press OK. All done! Start up logo is changed.

2)Changing "Shutting down(please wait)" logo
    Do above 4 steps. In 4th step save, as different name but in same format.
    Start XrX's logo utility. Load the saved image. Press install. Choose option "please wait 
    logo" and press OK. All done! 

3)Changing "It's now safe to turn off your computer" logo
    Do above 4 steps. In 4th step, save as different name but in same format.
    Start XrX's logo utility. Load the saved image. Press install. Choose option "OK to Shutdown
    Logo" and press OK. All done! 

**NOTE=XrX addbar is also same utility which has additional feature to add animated bar like win's
       original startup logo.******

The additional pre-made logo's are available on following URL's:

http://www.nucleus.com/~kmcmurdo/logos/
http://b.webring.com/hub?ring=logo&list

Any bugs! Welcome! Thanks,

For better windows experience,
*eXpLoIt Mihir*,
netmagnet@f2s.com
www.ichalkaranji.f2s.com