Restore Windows 2000 Startup in XP

[Matt A. Tobin]

I wonder if theres a way to make the progress bar work again in XP like in win2k... instead if the animated bs howabout a true progress bar.... any ideas??

[Matt A. Tobin]

well i guess its not a priorty well...

[Matt A. Tobin]

come on atleast tell me it isnt possible or something./////

[Dom]

I dont have a damn clue of what you're talking about

[amradiar]

maybe if you explain what your looking for a bit better, you will get an answer. right now i have absoleutly no freaking idea of what your trying to say.

[Cero]

I dont have a damn clue of what you're talking about

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When you boot up in XP the "progress bar" is more of a marquee just scrolling over and over. In Win2000 boot up it actually tells you the progress.

You could always find a Win2000 boot screen, and change it to that. As far as changing only the progress bar, I have no clue.. ;)

As for the people who are clueless in this thread, he's talking about the blue progress bar on the WINDOWS XP boot screen:

[I8PP]

Instead of the blue animated thing in the bootscreen below the logo that loops over and over, he wants an actual progress bar showing the progress of booting, as was the case in the Windows 2000 screen. I for one don't know, but i think it's not possible.

[tkyoshi]

I think he means where the Windows 2000 screen pops up after the NT Boot Loader, it says

Starting up... <Progress Bar>

In XP you just have the animated blue bar (or green if you have an old Pre-SP2 Home Edition).

Anyway i do not believe it's possible so the answer is no.

[Matt A. Tobin]

what i dont get is why they removed it in the first place... I will try and track down the files responsible for the loading of that screen what i do know is its ntoskrnl.exe but there may be support files that did the progress bar on 2k... looks like i am gonna have to break out a copy of 2000 it just was better to know if windows was actualy loading instead if the computer just crunching harddrive activity in an endless loop which has happend on older computers.. thanks again for people replying back :)

[Matt A. Tobin]

Damn i cant find any info someone with a greater experence working with files needs to compaire... o btw i tryed swaping the file from 2000 and it didnt work LOL

[Matt A. Tobin]

ha ha bump from the dead.. everyone needs to look for a way to make it so... *BUMPAROONIE*

[HU6H]

First off, people who bump threads are awesome! :p

Second, I wouldn't recommend just "replacing" a few of the system files, such as ntoskrnl.exe, with Win2k copies; your system may not boot at all if you do that.

I personally don't think it's possible, because it appeas to me that the system is no longer "keeping track," if you will, of the loading progress as it did with Win2k. I think this may be one of those things you have to either put up with, or teach yourself how to gain access to the XP source code, learn whatever coding language it's written in*, and re-write it yourself.

* this passage probably shows just how much I don't know about coding. :blush:

[Matt A. Tobin]

hey thanks for responding and i did a /kernel=ntos2k.exe so i could still boot if it didnt work... and.. anyway theres a progress bar when the system hibernates.. and also... if i did replace it i could use my nifty winpe cd :-p

[invalidbuffalo]

bump from the dead again. I was wondering the same thing, but its starting to sound like this cant be done.