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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 |
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splash screen and standby questions
"John" wrote in message
... 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? The start menu is merely a group of links (LNK files) in c:\windows. You can delete anything from it (or add any LNK to it) without altering their applications. Most power users seem to avoid Power Management. 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. Why not just copy to a floppy the Win98 splash screen (its filepath is c:\windows\LOGOW.SYS), then rename the WinXP splash screen file, then copy the LOGOW.SYS to the name and location of the WinXP file? -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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splash screen and standby questions
If you copy logo.sys (not logow.sys) from an earlier version of Windows and
put it in the root folder, it would be used rather than the Win98 default logo which is built into IO.SYS. You will not find a logo.sys file on an unmodified Win98 system or on later versions of Windows. You can also use any bmp file of your choice that is 320 x 400 x 256 colors and named to logo.sys and placed in the root folder. The splash screen should remain displayed for the same period at each boot unless you have made some change. On some systems, it will remain displayed without interruption and on others, initializing the display adapter will interrupt the logo display. I don't think there's any way to change that or to force the logo to display for a period of time. To remove the Standby feature from Windows, you may be able to disable this feature in the BIOS. Windows recognizes the system's ability to do this and then includes it. This may require a clean install since it's already there. PattyL "John" wrote in message ... 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 |
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In Windows XP, the following Registry Key will remove Standby, both from
Properties and the Shutdown window. Can someone check and see if it works with Windows 98/ME, or if not, can it be modified to work? Thanks. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\ACPI\Parameters] "Attributes"=dword:00000070 "PattyL" wrote in message ... If you copy logo.sys (not logow.sys) from an earlier version of Windows and put it in the root folder, it would be used rather than the Win98 default logo which is built into IO.SYS. You will not find a logo.sys file on an unmodified Win98 system or on later versions of Windows. You can also use any bmp file of your choice that is 320 x 400 x 256 colors and named to logo.sys and placed in the root folder. The splash screen should remain displayed for the same period at each boot unless you have made some change. On some systems, it will remain displayed without interruption and on others, initializing the display adapter will interrupt the logo display. I don't think there's any way to change that or to force the logo to display for a period of time. To remove the Standby feature from Windows, you may be able to disable this feature in the BIOS. Windows recognizes the system's ability to do this and then includes it. This may require a clean install since it's already there. PattyL "John" wrote in message ... 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 |
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