Win98 start-up logo screen wanted!
 

Hi! I'm new to this forum and came to ask for an URL to a web site with Win98 start-up logo screens. So, where can I get some?

Win98 start-up logo screen wanted!
 

Harry Potter wrote:
Hi! I'm new to this forum and came to ask for an URL to a web
site with Win98 start-up logo screens. So, where can I get some?

Try he
http://toastytech.com/guis/indexwindows.html

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Win98 start-up logo screen wanted!
 

On Monday, May 15, 2017 at 6:42:26 PM UTC-4, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
Try he
http://toastytech.com/guis/indexwindows.html

I checked. I didn't see it. :(

Win98 start-up logo screen wanted!
 

Harry Potter wrote:
On Monday, May 15, 2017 at 6:42:26 PM UTC-4, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
Try he
http://toastytech.com/guis/indexwindows.html

I checked. I didn't see it. :(

Well you have to click on one of the Windows 98 links.

Oh, to cut to the chase:
http://toastytech.com/guis/win98logo.png

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Win98 start-up logo screen wanted!
 

On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 7:10:43 PM UTC-4, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
Well you have to click on one of the Windows 98 links.

Oh, to cut to the chase:
http://toastytech.com/guis/win98logo.png

You seem to misunderstand: I want to change the picture Windows displays during startup and shut down.

Win98 start-up logo screen wanted!
 

On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 5:14:45 PM UTC-6, Harry Potter wrote:
You seem to misunderstand: I want to change the picture Windows displays during startup and shut down.
The special made logo is compressed using a sekret method and stored in io.sys file. It's further animated in the moving bar across the bottom of the screen. Without knowing the compression technique used (and nobody will tell) or where it's at you CAN'T change it so very easy. There used to be instructions on how to make a similar animation bitmap on the web, but those sites are going to be hard to find in these latter days for 98.

So unless you buy the software that used to be able to do it, which is why those that knew how weren't telling how since they were selling the how, you just can't get there from here.

Shutdown is a separate issue and a different method. This one is simply named logow.sys and is found in the windows folder. Copy it somewhere else and change the extension to .bmp and view it with paint or any other image viewer.
Any replacement will have to be exactly same type, same size bitmap.

Win98 start-up logo screen wanted!
 

Thank you, but I already know how to create the images--except the animated scrol bar on the bottom. I just want a pre-defined logo. :)

Win98 start-up logo screen wanted!
 

On Wed, 17 May 2017 07:51:29 +0100, Lee wrote:

On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 5:14:45 PM UTC-6, Harry Potter wrote:
You seem to misunderstand: I want to change the picture Windows
displays during startup and shut down.
The special made logo is compressed using a sekret method and stored in
io.sys file. It's further animated in the moving bar across the bottom
of the screen. Without knowing the compression technique used (and
nobody will tell) or where it's at you CAN'T change it so very easy.

No one? - I'm sure I read about it ages ago - the startup program toggles
the (just the blue?) palette to give the impression of a running bar at
the base.

http://xrxlogo.com/win95logo.htm

There used to be instructions on how to make a similar animation bitmap
on the web, but those sites are going to be hard to find in these latter
days for 98.

http://www.xrx.ca/logoutils/

Some are still up:

http://www.ehuna.org/open95.htm

So unless you buy the software that used to be able to do it, which is
why those that knew how weren't telling how since they were selling the
how, you just can't get there from here.

Shutdown is a separate issue and a different method. This one is simply
named logow.sys and is found in the windows folder. Copy it somewhere
else and change the extension to .bmp and view it with paint or any
other image viewer.
Any replacement will have to be exactly same type, same size bitmap.


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Bah, and indeed, Humbug

Win98 start-up logo screen wanted!
 

In message , Kerr Mudd-John
writes:
On Wed, 17 May 2017 07:51:29 +0100, Lee wrote:

On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 5:14:45 PM UTC-6, Harry Potter wrote:
You seem to misunderstand: I want to change the picture Windows
displays during startup and shut down.

(There are actually two used at shutdown - one while, and the "it is now
safe ..." one [which you won't see if your PC shuts itself off]. The
shutdown ones don't animate.)

The special made logo is compressed using a sekret method and stored
in io.sys file. It's further animated in the moving bar across the
bottom of the screen. Without knowing the compression technique used
(and nobody will tell) or where it's at you CAN'T change it so very easy.

You can - well, for '95; I can't remember whether for '98. (I think it's
the same.) See http://logos.xrx.ca/faq.htm; basically, it uses
C:\LOGO.SYS if it exists, and the one compressed into the system file if
it doesn't. (If you have compressed drives - remember those? - it has to
be in the root of the host drive.)

No one? - I'm sure I read about it ages ago - the startup program
toggles the (just the blue?) palette to give the impression of a
running bar at the base.

I remember some quite imaginative ones - waterfalls, etc.; there's a
nice Christmas tree at http://logos.xrx.ca/, as well as lots of others,
not all animated.

http://xrxlogo.com/win95logo.htm

There used to be instructions on how to make a similar animation
bitmap on the web, but those sites are going to be hard to find in
these latter days for 98.

http://www.xrx.ca/logoutils/

Some are still up:

http://www.ehuna.org/open95.htm

So unless you buy the software that used to be able to do it, which
is why those that knew how weren't telling how since they were
selling the how, you just can't get there from here.

Shutdown is a separate issue and a different method. This one is
simply named logow.sys and is found in the windows folder. Copy it
somewhere else and change the extension to .bmp and view it with
paint or any other image viewer.
Any replacement will have to be exactly same type, same size bitmap.

Also stretched/squashed: it should start as a 4:3 ratio (e. g. 640×480),
and be resized in your favourite graphics prog. to 320×400 - it will be
(un?)distorted back to original ratio when displayed by Windows 9x.

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Win98 start-up logo screen wanted!
 

On Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 11:51:47 AM UTC-4, Kerr Mudd-John wrote:
http://xrxlogo.com/win95logo.htm

Thank you! :)

http://www.xrx.ca/logoutils/

That's useful.