Retain XP Pro opening screen

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Richard Harison

Hello!
This may seem very unimportant...but I love that my bootup screen says *XP
Professional.* I converted to SP2, but because of some concern about duplicated
applications (firewall, antivirus, popups) because I see them as ways to slow
down operations, I went back to SP1. But recently,some very nice MS-MVPs have
suggested I was spitting upwind by not staying with SP2. On the whole I would
agree, but SP2's opening screen only says *XP* not *XP Professional.* Sure it
may be an ego trip, but is there any way to convert to SP2 and retain the SP1
opening screen?
 
No.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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| Hello!
| This may seem very unimportant...but I love that my bootup screen says *XP
| Professional.* I converted to SP2, but because of some concern about duplicated
| applications (firewall, antivirus, popups) because I see them as ways to slow
| down operations, I went back to SP1. But recently,some very nice MS-MVPs have
| suggested I was spitting upwind by not staying with SP2. On the whole I would
| agree, but SP2's opening screen only says *XP* not *XP Professional.* Sure it
| may be an ego trip, but is there any way to convert to SP2 and retain the SP1
| opening screen?
|
| --
| All the Best . . .
| Richard Harison
 
Thanks for the info...still wonder WHY? After all you pay more for Pro than
Home. As I said...probably an ego thing!
 
Quite understandable! But is there anyway to incorporate the screen file
independently...i.e. overwriting the appropriate SP2 file?
 
No anyway that's supported.

Why bother, it's not like you see that screen for more than 10 seconds.
 
SP2 makes a cosmetic change to the boot screen as you noticed.
This is normal. The change reduces the testing footprint for the
various editions of Windows XP.
With a common boot screen, the test matrix does not require unique
testing of screens for all of the possible Windows XP editions.

The splash screen that appears at startup does not display the
complete Windows XP version information
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;886930

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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| Thanks for the info...still wonder WHY? After all you pay more for Pro than
| Home. As I said...probably an ego thing!
|
| --
| All the Best . . .
| Richard Harison
 
Thank you...
This may seem a little too simple, but could not one simply save the
ntoskrnl.exe file from SP1, install SP2, and then overwrite ntoskrnl.exe?
Or would that screw something else up?
 
You are right without a doubt! I just thought if there was a simple way to
retain the screen, I would do it. But in the course of this thread, I learned
much about SP2, and WHY Microsoft chose to universalize the opening screen. That
in itself was worth the price of admission!
 
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