OS2/WARP XP Pro Boot/Splash Screen?

[Guest]

Okay okay.. admittedly I was tinkering with the boot screens.... However I did take the "safe route" by making copies of ntoskrnl.exe, then booting off the modified versions using additional entries in the boot.ini file.. However, the most bizzare thing occured when I got bored and started booting off my stock, unmodified (sp1a) ntoskrnl.exe. I started getting an OS2/Warp Splash screen with an IBM logo in the corner??? Needless to say, it's just an annoyance, however I'd really like to figure out what bit was flipped so I can get my XP screen back... I used a resource viewer to double check the bitmap in the ntoskrnl.exe which is being used, and sure enough, it's NOT an OS2/Warp bitmap.. So I really have no clue where this is coming from.

If anyone's ever seen this, or knows how to nuke the lil bugger, lemme know

Thanks

Brian

 

[Guest]

Fixed it! Very bizzare... When you edit and save the boot.ini file, it seems to lose it's hidden and system file attributes (which is OK I suppose). When I applied the +S +H attributes back to the boot.ini file, it stopped displaying the OS2/WARP splash screen, and reverted back to the default Windows XP Pro splash screen... =)

 

[Brad Wardell]

Okay okay.. admittedly I was tinkering with the boot screens.... However

I did take the "safe route" by making copies of ntoskrnl.exe, then booting
off the modified versions using additional entries in the boot.ini file..
However, the most bizzare thing occured when I got bored and started booting
off my stock, unmodified (sp1a) ntoskrnl.exe. I started getting an OS2/Warp
Splash screen with an IBM logo in the corner??? Needless to say, it's just
an annoyance, however I'd really like to figure out what bit was flipped so
I can get my XP screen back... I used a resource viewer to double check the
bitmap in the ntoskrnl.exe which is being used, and sure enough, it's NOT an
OS2/Warp bitmap.. So I really have no clue where this is coming from..

If anyone's ever seen this, or knows how to nuke the lil bugger, lemme know!

Thanks,

There is a free program called BootSkin (http://www.bootskin.com) that
changes boot screens without messing with your Windows kernel file.
Ironically, BootSkinc comes with an OS/2 Warp 4 boot screen (it's made by
Stardock which developed a lot of OS/2 software so it's in there for
nostalgia purposes).