Wallpaper Challenge....

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I am trying to replace all of the XPe startup screens with a custom boot.bmp
image.

I have used the tips on this site to substitute the boot screen(1) , the
welcome screen (3) and the final wallpaper screeen(4).

I do not know how to substitute the initial windows desktop background (2)
that appears after the boot screen but before the welcome screen appears.

Any direction would be appreciated.

Thanks
 
BobBoots99,

Did you already try
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop],"Wallpaper"

Please note .DEFAULT branch.
 
Thanks. That worked.
However, the screen still flashes to solid blue before changing over to the
Default desktop Wallpaper. Since the boot image can only be 16
colors....is there a place where I can at least change the background color
of that "solid blue" that I am still seeing flash by?


KM said:
BobBoots99,

Did you already try
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop],"Wallpaper"

Please note .DEFAULT branch.

--
Regards,
KM, BSquare Corp.

I am trying to replace all of the XPe startup screens with a custom boot.bmp
image.

I have used the tips on this site to substitute the boot screen(1) , the
welcome screen (3) and the final wallpaper screeen(4).

I do not know how to substitute the initial windows desktop background (2)
that appears after the boot screen but before the welcome screen appears.

Any direction would be appreciated.

Thanks
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BobBoots99,

Try one more thing:
Add [HKLM\SOFTWARE\M-icrosoft\Windows\CurrentVersio-n\policies\system], "DisableStatusMessages"=dword:1 value.

--
Regards,
KM, BSquare Corp.

Thanks. That worked.
However, the screen still flashes to solid blue before changing over to the
Default desktop Wallpaper. Since the boot image can only be 16
colors....is there a place where I can at least change the background color
of that "solid blue" that I am still seeing flash by?


KM said:
BobBoots99,

Did you already try
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop],"Wallpaper"

Please note .DEFAULT branch.

--
Regards,
KM, BSquare Corp.

I am trying to replace all of the XPe startup screens with a custom boot.bmp
image.

I have used the tips on this site to substitute the boot screen(1) , the
welcome screen (3) and the final wallpaper screeen(4).

I do not know how to substitute the initial windows desktop background (2)
that appears after the boot screen but before the welcome screen appears.

Any direction would be appreciated.

Thanks
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I added a new DWORD named "DisableStatusMessages" with a Value of 1....and no
change to that screen was observed. Hopefully someone will know where the
background color of that screen is stored...so I can change it to my dark
blue background color from the 4 bit boot color scheme.

Thanks for your help though...

KM said:
BobBoots99,

Try one more thing:
Add [HKLM\SOFTWARE\M-icrosoft\Windows\CurrentVersio-n\policies\system], "DisableStatusMessages"=dword:1 value.

--
Regards,
KM, BSquare Corp.

Thanks. That worked.
However, the screen still flashes to solid blue before changing over to the
Default desktop Wallpaper. Since the boot image can only be 16
colors....is there a place where I can at least change the background color
of that "solid blue" that I am still seeing flash by?


KM said:
BobBoots99,

Did you already try
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop],"Wallpaper"

Please note .DEFAULT branch.

--
Regards,
KM, BSquare Corp.


I am trying to replace all of the XPe startup screens with a custom boot.bmp
image.

I have used the tips on this site to substitute the boot screen(1) , the
welcome screen (3) and the final wallpaper screeen(4).

I do not know how to substitute the initial windows desktop background (2)
that appears after the boot screen but before the welcome screen appears.

Any direction would be appreciated.

Thanks
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Hello Bob,

To change the windows desktop in a background image you can go first create
a customized componet to import the wallpaper into the xpe image and bring
that component into the slx file. Then find the component windows api user
and go to the registry section find the entry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\CONTROL PANEL\DESKTOP\Wallpaper and modify it to
c:\path\file name

Thanks,

Deb
 
BobBoots99,

You have probably already seen and tried this but still
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors]. Values like "Background".

--
Regards,
KM, BSquare Corp.

I added a new DWORD named "DisableStatusMessages" with a Value of 1....and no
change to that screen was observed. Hopefully someone will know where the
background color of that screen is stored...so I can change it to my dark
blue background color from the 4 bit boot color scheme.

Thanks for your help though...

KM said:
BobBoots99,

Try one more thing:
Add [HKLM\SOFTWARE\M-icrosoft\Windows\CurrentVersio-n\policies\system], "DisableStatusMessages"=dword:1 value.

--
Regards,
KM, BSquare Corp.

Thanks. That worked.
However, the screen still flashes to solid blue before changing over to the
Default desktop Wallpaper. Since the boot image can only be 16
colors....is there a place where I can at least change the background color
of that "solid blue" that I am still seeing flash by?


:

BobBoots99,

Did you already try
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop],"Wallpaper"

Please note .DEFAULT branch.

--
Regards,
KM, BSquare Corp.


I am trying to replace all of the XPe startup screens with a custom boot.bmp
image.

I have used the tips on this site to substitute the boot screen(1) , the
welcome screen (3) and the final wallpaper screeen(4).

I do not know how to substitute the initial windows desktop background (2)
that appears after the boot screen but before the welcome screen appears.

Any direction would be appreciated.

Thanks
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Hello BobBoots99 & all others,

Despite that I can't help.
How do you suppress the "popup Windows" saying: "Windows starting up..."
and "Windows loading personal settings..."
Is there an option to hide them ?
(I also want to achieve a startup without any windows xp views)

Thanks, Wolfgang
 
Wolfgang,

Add [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system], "DisableStatusMessages"=dword:1 value.
 
Many thanks, KM.

And is there a more elegant way to get rid of the bootscreen ?
(I only found a tool to search for it in ntoskrnl.exe and exchange it)
Isn't there a possibility in XPE to exchange it "officially" ?
(I don't think I'am "officially" allowed to change the exe according to
licencing issues.)

Wolfgang
 
Many Thanks Slobodan!

(And also for the "Google - Groups" engine which I didn't know !)

Wolfgang
 
Hi Deb,

I made my component, added it to the image, and then in the registry entry
you mention (which I manually added to the image), I changed the "value" to
the path where the file is located. Is that correct?

I did exactly what you wrote down, and still doesnt work. I only see a small
icon in the top left corner of the screen, with a small red cross. Im
wondering if the image must have some specific characteristics?

I really had tried different methods, and none had worked. I would like to
know what am I doing wrong in this one. Or if someone can specify me the
steps to have a default wallpaper using the component I made, which contains
the .bmp I want to be as the wallpaper.

Greetings,

Juan Carlos
 
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