xp boot screens? (mame related...or custom)

[hulkster]

im wanting to customize my cab a little more so that it will disguise it so that it doesnt look like the cab has windows in it.  im running xp, and i know you can change the boot screen though certain programs, i have one....but what im wanting to know is can you make your own bootscreens to put in there?  i thought about taking the background of my marquee and making that the bootscreen with some text on it....is this possible?  can you just link the background pic to the boot screen and there you have it?  this the program ill be using: http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/

[Valence]

I have made a few bootscreens (actually I took someone else's and then modified it) but I didn't use the program that you listed.

Here's a link that has all the info that I used to make mine.

http://www.themexp.org/make_own.php

[JackTucky]

this the program ill be using: http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/

Any spyware or similar in bootskin?

Art

[hulkster]

i dont think so, i got that link off of the Screensavers web site (show on TechTV here in the States) and they dont post anything that has spyware without telling you.  

[blue]

I know that StyleXP is another program that will help you change the boot screens. Its what i use.

http://www.tgtsoft.com/

[hulkster]

your my boy blue!!!  ....he looks....glorious.... (old school ref.)

[Aceldamor]

Hulkster....

What about this...put the exe of whatever fe your running in the startup folder of XP... then make the bootscreen a screenshot or a copy of the skin your fe is using.

That way your pc won't look like it's booting at all, it will just look like it's loading your games the whole time. When it's done booting, your gamelists. screenshots, marquees, ect. will populate in the empty fields the skin or background your fe is using.

The only way I don't see this looking remotely authentic is if your using something like Mame32. Simply because you can't "skin" Mame32

Just something I've though about doing on my cab.

[rchadd]

there are many XP tips on this page http://wirelesstek.com/winxp.htm

seems to have info on how to hide the startup/login/shutdown screens

[Brad Lee]

If you're looking for the screens themselves, I've got about 20 that are pre-sized for a win98 boot screen (320x400, 98 doubles the width when it uses em)
Probably useless for XP, but for any 98'ers out there checkin it out..

located here- http://worldwidewasted.com/download.htm

[eu4ria]

What better way to disguise windows than by removing it

Seriosuly are people actually putting in cabs and wating a liscence fee on Windows - when linux would work just as well and then you could ue that saved money to much better use in your cab.

 

[SoundDoc]

There are two Programs I've used:

BootXP          www.bootxp.net
ChangerXP     www.nihuo.com/changerxp.html

I Prefer BootXP's themes, and you can just throw any jpg, gif, bmp, or theme availiable online into it, and you still get the nice rotating progress bar. Best program by far.

Changer XP has a great option that you can have it change the boot screen on startup, so each time you start, you have a different boot screen, and also lets you select any image(s) and will auto format them. but it doesn't support some of the cool boot screens I like, has a nag screen, and is always resident, taking a little resources. But it also can change the wallpaper, windows theme, bootscreen, screensaver etc... as a theme.

Hope this helps!

SD

[Howard_Casto]

What better way to disguise windows than by removing it

Seriosuly are people actually putting in cabs and wating a liscence fee on Windows - when linux would work just as well and then you could ue that saved money to much better use in your cab.

 

Sure that's a great idea... if you like no choice in emulators, no pc games, no hardware acceleration, a single god-ugly front-end and something even more annoying then the xp bootup screen.... the linux bootup sequence (which I might add often takes a few minutes as opposed to a few seconds.)  


Sorry to just tell it like it is, but you asked for it.  


Linux users have such tunnel vision.  

[SirPeale]

Sorry to just tell it like it is, but you asked for it.  


Linux users have such tunnel vision.  

And you don't?  You're contstantly bashing Linux, and it is, more often than not, what you say it is.

No hardware acceleration?  In what dimension?  No emulators?  Last I knew there was an emulator for almost every platform.

If you're going to spread FUD, please make it informed FUD.  This may have been the case five years ago, but Linux has come a long, long way.

[hulkster]

oh no, another post turned into a slugfest fanboy session!  i thought i was just involved in one a few days ago??  does a mamed centipede cab ring a bell??  ANYWAY, i dont think im gonna need a bootup screen afterall, because for some reason the tv that im using doesnt like the bootup sequences of windows and while its booting up, will just roll up and down on the screen in black and white until it gets to the windows logon screen and then its just fine.  i guess thats either the tv or my video card that doesnt register until its in windows.  weird.