Safely change your boot screens with BootSkin 1.0

Published on January 26, 2004 By Stardock Central In WinCustomize News

BootSkin 1.0 is now available for download. BootSkin is a freeware program that allows Windows 2000 and Windows XP users to safely change their Windows boot screens.

While other Windows boot changing programs exist, they have relied on patching the actual Windows XP kernel to change the screen. This can create all kinds of potential problems. BootSkin, by contrast, installs a driver whose only job is to display the boot screen. This allows users to change their boot screens without messing with any system files and keeps the size of boot screen download small (less than 20K typically) since only the actual graphic has to be downloaded.

There are hundreds of replacement boot screens available for BootSkin on websites such as WinCustomize.com. BootSkin's home page is www.bootskin.com

Comments (Page 2)

Big_Red_Machine

on Jan 28, 2004

well if you update an app then you should reflect that in the file name ... the file name is the same that I dl'ed Jan. 8th.

Jafo

on Jan 29, 2004

Wauslee....the images are identical.

Exactly identical [though 'exactly' is redundant]...

choopper

on Jan 29, 2004

how do i make a boot skin pls can anyone help i have seen it on the site some where but cannot find it

subdude

on Jan 29, 2004

hmm, I don't know about safe - It hosed my Win2k machine.

Had to go into VGA mode just to be able to boot far enough to delete it. As soon as I rebooted, everything was fine. Think I'll save this for my XP Laptops ....

PixelCargo

on Jan 29, 2004

Well I will just wait entil the day that you can use 24bit images and use Flash animations for boot screens, now thats what I would call a boot screen

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