Boot directly to MameWah? how?

[Taborious]

I'm running XP, I know I can add the mamawah to the startup menu but how do I avoid the windows logon screen so it goes straight to mamewah after boot?

[DaemonCollector]

Can we sticky my answer to this post?

For the bootscreen: Use BootXP found at www.bootxp.net, there may be another program out there to do this that is free. I made BootXP free... Wink

For Autologon: Using the Run Dialog type, "Control Userpasswords2" and uncheck Users must log, when you close out of the window it will ask you to set the default user.

To change the Shell: Open regedit under the user you plan on changing the shell for. Be very carefull in the registry!. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot and if there is a value Shell, change the first 3 letters which read SYS to USR. Then go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon and create a value for Shell and put the path to your new shell, in this case Mamewah.

To remove notifications: These are the little windows that come up and say "Loading personal settings" and the like, in regedit go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system and create a DWORD value DisableStatusMessages and set its value to 1.

Change defualt user backgrounds: This is the autoloaded background when windows starts, to change just the color go to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors and change background to whatever color you want, its an RGB value, so black is 0 0 0. To set a picture like the instruction card I did, just create the picture and set the path for Wallpaper in HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop.




this is from my post about a year ago....http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=22414.0

[Bill Mote]

That's great info and much more detailed than I was about to post.  I had set my "require password" setting and I had replaced my shell with mamewah.exe, but it wasn't working.  All I got was a black screen (also replaced my background with nothing and black as the color).  I could CTRL-ALT-DEL and launch mamewah.exe, but it would not come up as the shell ...

I'll give the items you noted in your post a shot and see if this corrects it for me.  Thanks, and yes, this should be a sticky post!

[Taborious]

This is great information thanks Daemon.

When I exit Mamewah will it put me in windows, still need to access, even though I have remote desktop running so I can config from my other machine at larger resolution.

What is sticky post?

[DaemonCollector]

There are 2 ways you can have it stillg et to windows on exit. There is the "run program on exit" option in mamewah, just have that run "Explorer.exe". Or after exiting mamewah hit ctrl-alt-del, go to task manager, new task. and run Explorer. A sticky post is one that stays on the top of the board, I see this question about every 2 months or so

[Taborious]

Do I have to sticky it or is that a sysop thing? If me how?

[DaemonCollector]

Op only thing, there is a post at the top of the board called "Sticky for all former stickies" or something along those lines...

[RoboG2]

Or you could save your resources, get rid of bootxp, and get rid of a  boot screen altogether.  To do this, go to run, and type in msconfig; then click on the boot.ini tab, and uncheck the option for bootscreen (can't remember what it's called).

[DaemonCollector]

I thought if you remove the boot screen it shows the loading processes ala safe mode?

[ahmer]

I used bootxp to change Xp logo but my custom logo was dull.
So i tried another way to change xp logo.

Right click 'My Computer' then click Properties. Under the 'Advanced' tab, click Settings next to Startup and Recovery. Click Edit.

After the command /fastdetect add /bootlogo /noguiboot.

Now drop a 16 colour, 640x480 bmp file named boot.bmp into windows root folder.

btw,this way will completely hide the animated loading bar of xp logo.

'/BOOTLOGO
Use this switch to have Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 display an installable splash screen instead of the standard splash screen. First, create a 16-color (any 16 colors) 640x480 bitmap and save it in the Windows directory with the name Boot.bmp. Then add "/bootlogo /noguiboot" to the boot.ini selection'

[DaemonCollector]

The only reason I don't like that way of doing it is that you can't customize your progress bar, if it even appears (I don't remember if it does)

[ahmer]

no it does not show progress bar and it only shows a simple logo.
I had done a lot work in adobe photoshop to make my custom logo.

bootxp and other xp logo changing softwares always kill the color scheme and look of Selected snap.