Auto hide mouse/desktop/taskbar Smoothly

[JIM]

Hi,
I now have Glaunch running pretty good. I have it boot automatically into it. But as it boots I have the desktop and taskbar pop on first for a split second. how can i auto hide all of that so it boots into glaunch as if it was on its own OS? also is there an easy way to change the windows 98 boot logo? is there software to do it easily. Right now i have just disabled it.

Thanks
Jim

[mw]

For win 95/98 boot and shutdown logos are 320 x 400 256 color uncompressed bmp files called logo.sys, logow.sys and logos.sys. You can make your own and change the extensions to .sys instead of the .bmp, backup your originals before replacing with new one.

I don't know how or if you can hide the operating system as it starts  

[slug54]

Heres how I do it. I replaced The windows logo files as mentioned above with a custom graphic . I use a command line program which I put in a batch file and call from the Win.ini  file . The program is called
"Shell Hide" I could not find a link for it . I found it on somebodys example page here. If you can't find it I could E-mail it to you. I  made a custom windows background , I deleted all the Icons from the desktop that I could. when Shell Hide runs it hides all Icons, the taskbar and also disables any right click and context menus for the background. I still get a little flash of the desktop before Shell Hide runs ,so I minimize the task bar and I drag the  2 or 3 icons I do have off the the edge of the screen.

Hope this helps
        Slug54

[Skeleton]

That Shell Hide program is on my site.

I've battled this problem already and either you can use the Shell Hide program or you could probably make the GameLauncher program the windows shell. I haven't tried this, but it should work, in Win9x at least, I don't know about XP. Just edit the system.ini file and change the line that says: shell=Explorer.exe to shell=c:\GLaunch\GLaunch.exe (or whatever the proper path is). Just make sure you get the path correct or windows won't boot and it'll tell you that you need to reinstall windows.  The drawbacks to this approach are that it disables any shortcut hotkeys that you may have (I need these) and when you call a program from the shell, it shows a button at the bottom of the screen.

See the Software page on my site for more info.