splash screen and standby questions

i have three technical questions pertaining to windows 98:

ONE: i am using the asus a7v333-x motherboard, 3dfx voodoo4 4500 agp and
viewsonic p95f+ monitor. and i am wondering if theres a setting i can change,
remove or uninstall, from the system, that doesnt require editing the
registry, to have the "Standby" feature removed from both the start menu and
power management applet?

TWO: during the basic bios/post of my computer the windows 98 splash screen
displays for a few moments and occasionally disappears to either a blank
screen or listing of my pcs initialized hardware. -all before successfully
loading windows and showing the desktop. i am wondering if its possible to
change something inside windows that will display the windows splash screen
consistently until the windows desktop starts to load. ive noticed sometimes
that the splash screen displays for either one second or several seconds
while windows loads. if its just a second, sometimes it just goes to a blank
screen. but i dont want it to display a blank screen or system POST while
loading windows. i want the splash screen to continuously show all the way
through the period of time taken just before seeing the desktop. whether im
waiting 3 seconds or 8 seconds. is there a way of specifying how long the
splash screen displays without just stating to show it or not show it, but a
specified length of time? i know its possible to either turn it on or off
with the TweakUI utility or just delete the logo.sys file, but i dont want to
do that, or just switch it on or off.

and

FINALLY: if i were able to take an earlier or later version of windows and
copy its startup splash screen .sys file and use it on a version of windows
not related, i.e., use the original splash screen from windows 98 on a
windows xp system; how would i do this, without creating a special splash
screen from scratch? cant i just copy the operating systems splash .sys file
from one system to another and have it load and work? i tried this once
before and there was no change.

thank you
johni have three technical questions pertaining to windows 98:

ONE: i am using the asus a7v333-x motherboard, 3dfx voodoo4 4500 agp and
viewsonic p95f+ monitor. and i am wondering if theres a setting i can change,
remove or uninstall, from the system, that doesnt require editing the
registry, to have the "Standby" feature removed from both the start menu and
power management applet?

TWO: during the basic bios/post of my computer the windows 98 splash screen
displays for a few moments and occasionally disappears to either a blank
screen or listing of my pcs initialized hardware. -all before successfully
loading windows and showing the desktop. i am wondering if its possible to
change something inside windows that will display the windows splash screen
consistently until the windows desktop starts to load. ive noticed sometimes
that the splash screen displays for either one second or several seconds
while windows loads. if its just a second, sometimes it just goes to a blank
screen. but i dont want it to display a blank screen or system POST while
loading windows. i want the splash screen to continuously show all the way
through the period of time taken just before seeing the desktop. whether im
waiting 3 seconds or 8 seconds. is there a way of specifying how long the
splash screen displays without just stating to show it or not show it, but a
specified length of time? i know its possible to either turn it on or off
with the TweakUI utility or just delete the logo.sys file, but i dont want to
do that, or just switch it on or off.

and

FINALLY: if i were able to take an earlier or later version of windows and
copy its startup splash screen .sys file and use it on a version of windows
not related, i.e., use the original splash screen from windows 98 on a
windows xp system; how would i do this, without creating a special splash
screen from scratch? cant i just copy the operating systems splash .sys file
from one system to another and have it load and work? i tried this once
before and there was no change.

thank you
john