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NickG:
You can hide the bootscreen image by adding "/noguiboot" to your boot.ini file. this can easily be done on the boot.ini tab of msconfig, by selecting the /NoGuiBoot box under the boot.ini tab. Alternatively, you can add your own image manually or with an application like Bootskin
One Program you can change the welcome screen with is logonstudio (free)
Then you can automatically start your gui instead of explorer.exe by editing the registry. at
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
right-click on the string value "Shell" and select modify. In the "Edit String" dialog that pops up, replace the text "Explorer.exe" with the full path and filename of your GUI.
EXAMPLE:
C:\Mame\GameEX.exe
If you mess up and your gui does not boot you should still be able to launch task manager and start explorer to fix it the easy way with CTRL-ALT-DELETE.
------------I am certain about everything in this post above this line--------------
Remember, if any of the pathname has spaces you might have to surround the entire string in double quotes examples:
"C:\Program Files\GameEX.exe"
--not sure about this
I have learned by using alternative shells (Aston) that it is possible to launch different shells per user. If you want to get really fancy you could probably create an account for each different shells and name the accounts for the shells. This would effectively turn the multi-user logon screen into a sort of program launching app. For example, you could have an account for every emulator you use that has their own built in GUIS with pictures of the consoles or the emulator's logos as the user account BMP's. I think this is done by logging in to the accounts after they are created and adding the "shell" string to the winlogon of currentuser instead of localmachine in regedit.
--not sure about some of this, either.
AKA Kaytrim:
:notworthy: Thanks NickG, I'll back up the machine first then play around with the registry for the separate logins. Even though my cab is dedicated to MAME I let the kids login to do homework if someone else is using the main computer. BTW I also found this information on the GameEX website. http://tomspeirs.com/gameex/Shell.htm
TTFN :cheers:
Kaytrim
NickG:
Oh! That sheller app looks much easier; thanks for the link.
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