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Chukka:

--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on October 13, 2009, 12:25:40 pm ---You can view a great guide here:  (This is what I use):
http://forums.maximusarcade.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=506

Here's an excerpt from that guide.  I only used this part, as I don't really want MA to boot as my main shell.  :)

"PART 3: Things you might as well do if you made it this far (all optional, but cool)

a) Hide the "Loading Settings" popup
-run regedit and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

-Create a DWORD value called "DisableStatusMessages", and edit its value to the number 1
(or edit this dword if it already exists, which it likely doesn't)

b) Kill the Welcome and Startup/Shutdown screens
-in regedit go to:
HKEY_USERS\DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors\Background

-change the value to: 0 0 0 (those are zeros, and the spaces ARE necessary)

-now, go to the Control Panel -> User Accounts and select "Change the way users log on or off". Uncheck "Use Welcome Screen"

c) Kill the pop-up bubbles like "USB device connected" "Not all Star Menu Objects can be shown", etc
-run regedit yet again and go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

-Create a DWORD named "EnableBalloonTips", and give it a hex value of "0" (zero)

d) Get rid of the WinXP bootscreen
-This is how i did it. There are programs that can give you the full featured ones with progress bars, etc, but my new bootscreen is the "Winners don't use drugs" screen from old arcade games, so it's a static image. It's perfect. :) Plus it's the easiest/least accident prone method of changing it.

-Make a 640x480 16-COLOR bitmap. It MUST be saved or converted to a 16-color bitmap. Or ask me for mine. Name it "boot.bmp" and keep it in your c:\windows directory

-Go to My Computer -> Properties -> Advance -> Startup and Recovery -> Settings

-Click "Edit Startup Options" and add the following to the end of what's there:
/bootlogo /noguiboot
(make sure you leave a space between the existing options and the ones you added above, and keep a space between the two new options while you're at it)"

P.S. - I'm almost done editing my intro for me to share with all to use.   :applaud:

DeLuSioNaL


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Everything else is fine except the taskbar now. It pops up twice (First loading LedWiz and then loading the FE) even though I have it switched to auto-hide and always minimize it before turning off the machine. Any ideas?

smalltownguy:
If you're seeing the taskbar, then you must not be shelling MA. Was it your intent to run it as a shell, or are you just trying to keep explorer but hide it as best as possible?

I'm not aware of any way to completely remove all instances of windows showing itself if you load explorer as your shell, only if you shell your frontend.

Could be wrong.....  :blah:

Kman-Sweden:
Smalltownguy is right. you need to hack the registry so your FE .exe is loaded instead of explorer.exe.
Have a look at the "Hide Windows" post in Maximus arcades fourm.

Chukka:

--- Quote from: smalltownguy on October 13, 2009, 05:48:41 pm ---If you're seeing the taskbar, then you must not be shelling MA. Was it your intent to run it as a shell, or are you just trying to keep explorer but hide it as best as possible?

I'm not aware of any way to completely remove all instances of windows showing itself if you load explorer as your shell, only if you shell your frontend.

Could be wrong.....  :blah:

--- End quote ---

No I wasn't planning on shelling MA. Will LedWiz etc. load properly if you don't start explorer?

Kman-Sweden:
yes.

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