[Login] PDC Login Screen

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Ok, I've updated both sites yet again with DamuzZ's version of the background bitmap. It doesn't have the black/grey splotch problem, and it shouldn't have the white patch problem because there's no pure black on it. So...

Yay, the bugs have been squashed. I hope. :)

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More of a general comment here but I can't see MS leaving this login screen as is. There needs to be the text telling the user that it's "saving personal settings... etc" because noobs will think it has froze. I bet they'll change it but for me it's fine without.

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Thats a 'replica' of the PDC build login screen? I've not seen it before. I dunno if any pointed out before... But it sure does resemble OS X - Panther's. Oh well! :D Cool!

It's not a replica it's a conceptual design. It's close though. Check out thecats version it's pretty close to the actual version.

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Read my first post all the way up there... I put a link to it. :D

No, its not meant to be a replica. I thought the original was a bit plain, so I switched some of the images to make it look smoother.

If anyone has more suggestions on what could be improved, speak up... New challenges are always nice. :)

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When logging out? Hmm, I may be able to change it. Does it say the same thing on the default WinXP logout screen also? Its been so long, I've forgotten. Anyway, I'll be looking into other logins and how they work, so I should end up with a pretty good idea of how to do it, if its possible. :)

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When logging out? Hmm, I may be able to change it. Does it say the same thing on the default WinXP logout screen also? Its been so long, I've forgotten. Anyway, I'll be looking into other logins and how they work, so I should end up with a pretty good idea of how to do it, if its possible. :)

In the actual PDC version it doesn't have the text but it would be nice if you added it. Thx.

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Evidence that I'm not a good coder. I've been trying for a few hours to enable the "Logging off...", etc part of the login screen. My efforts culminated in getting a black screen and a frozen computer every time the login screen came up. So, this is the second time in history I've *ucked this computer up to the point where booting off of the CD and using recovery console was necessary. Now its saying that the loginui file directory is corrupt/unreadable. Which is a bad thing. I'll see if I can continue tomorrow, but for now, I need a break. :)

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Evidence that I'm not a good coder. I've been trying for a few hours to enable the "Logging off...", etc part of the login screen. My efforts culminated in getting a black screen and a frozen computer every time the login screen came up. So, this is the second time in history I've *ucked this computer up to the point where booting off of the CD and using recovery console was necessary. Now its saying that the loginui file directory is corrupt/unreadable. Which is a bad thing. I'll see if I can continue tomorrow, but for now, I need a break. :)

Thanks for your efforts. And don't F*ck up your comp just to get the text. It's not that important.

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I use LoginLoader.

http://www.radfiles.com/logonloader/

As for the logoff text, I'm still working on that... I've added the bitmap image for logging off, I'm now trying to make it show up.

*Edit: I can't seem to find any references to the specific string which is displayed during logoff. If anyone's familiar with the code behind these login screens, please contact me...

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