BootXP 1.85a

Thanks to Mario Prieto for the email...

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 (https://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

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