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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: jasonbar on October 04, 2009, 05:53:51 pm
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Howdy-
One day, many months ago, my PC decided to stop showing its Windows XP "loading" screen w/ the "progress bar".
It also decided to stop playing the Start Windows sound that I assigned in the Sounds control panel.
I tried using Bootskin last week on my cab to add a loading screen, but it didn't show the new skin--just a blank black screen still. (I first tested Bootskin on my laptop successfully, to be sure I knew how to use it.)
Now, I know that a lot of people go through some effort to remove the Windows loading screen & my PC went ahead & did that for me spontaneously. Maybe I should be grateful, but I'd like to mess around w/ Bootskin to try out a custom loading screen and get a startup sound too.
Any ideas? Did something flip in my registry to disable these items?
Thanks,
-Jason
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Sounds like you have turned off GUI Boot..
Try the following:
Launch MSCONFIG (Click the Start orb/button. Search for MSCONFIG).
Click on the Boot tab.
Uncheck the No GUI Boot checkbox.
Click the OK button.
Reboot and see if it helped.
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Hey hey!!!
Thanks!!!! :cheers:
I never ever would have found that.
It brought back my Windows XP "loading "screen.
I don't remember turning this off in the past, but odds are that I did & forgot... :-[
However, I still don't have the "Start Windows" sound play. Perhaps that's because my shell is now MaLa & not Explorer?
Thanks,
-Jason
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I have maximus Shelled and there's no Windows startup sound there either.