BootXP 1.85a

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BootXP 1.85a (after a little bump in the road...) has been released.

The Most Important New Features And Bug Fixes are:

Added a Installer For Easy Installation.
Fixed a Installation Bug That Can Occurs If You Have Two Installation Of Different Operating Systems But With The Same Name In BOOT.INI.
Again, Rewritten 'First Run' and Uninstall Progress To Fix Some Errors.
Now BootXP Search The BOOT.INI Path Via Windows Registry Fixing The 95% of "BOOT.INI Not Found" Errors.
Also Fixes a Bug In BOOT.INI Generation and Safer Uninstallation Progress.
Added a Feature To Backup The Current BOOT.INI Line Used By BootXP, Useful For Boot With Deafult Boot Screen In Case of Problems.
Added The Option Of Preview/Install Boot Screens Via Drag And Drop.
Added a Option to Turn Off Overlay BMP Addition, Activate It For Get Rid The Overlays "Professional" or "Home Edition" in XP Boot Screens.
New Feature Allows Direct Search of New BMP (http://www.bootxp.net) and EXE Boot Screens (www.themexp.org) In Internet.
Added The Browse, Refresh and Delete Options To Boot Screens Directory.
Another Minor Bug Fixes, Optimizations and Error Handling.

Where are the Windows® Logo in Windows XP® or Windows 2000®
The Boot Screen Logo Are Stored as a Resource in the NTOSKRNL.EXE File, This file is in your WindowsSystem32 directory and it is called at boot by the Windows Kernel when XP/2k starts.

Solution...
Before the creation of BootXP, the only way to change the Boot Screen was to replace this file with another resource hacked NTOSKRNL.EXE containing another Boot Screen.

News source: BootXP

Download: BootXP 1.85a

(From divideBYzero, many thanks...)

The first step is to delete bpboh.dll, the location is C:WINNT or C:WINDOWS (or where ever your main windows directory is on your system).

Note, you must have any Internet Explorer windows closed.

The second and final step is to merge the following settings into your registry. That it your done! Spyware gone!

On the side note Morpheus will still work after you do this. I don't know if the spyware will come back so proceed with caution. It will come back if you reinstall Morpheus.

#1 Kamuii on 20 Mar 2002 - 04:45

Earlier versions of BootXP never worked for me. Is this one any more effective/stable/working? Heh...

#2 iconman on 20 Mar 2002 - 05:45

awesome version more faster

#3 frogworm on 20 Mar 2002 - 08:01

i'm scared to screw with system resources afraid i'll lose all my progs having to reformat cause of some bad programming. i'll give it a whirl but i'll be cautious.

#4 mariusu on 20 Mar 2002 - 11:32

well, let's try this out...

#5 FreelancEXP on 20 Mar 2002 - 20:29

Try it with care, It's the most optimized version of BootXP ever, but doesn't have 100% of effectivity. In a 0.05% of the cases you computer can be f#?%ed if you don't take preventions like make a boot.ini line backup. Good Luck!

#6 frogworm on 20 Mar 2002 - 22:49

i couldn't get it to work even with a boot pic off bootxp's web site. i spent 3+ hours last night designing a boot screen and took it down to 16 colors and everything and it still doesn't llike the image. *yes, its in bmp format.

#7 FreelancEXP on 23 Mar 2002 - 22:32

Updated to 1.85b Fixes a bug in updated NTOSKRNLs. (5.1.2600.31) and similar. If XP Displays A Incorrect Palette at Boot or you Had a HAL.DLL Error, Download The Update.

Last edited by 9621 on 23 Mar 2002 - 22:33

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