The Screen on Startup for Windows 2000 **SOLVED**

**Sgt-Peppa** · Mar 28th, 2003, 02:15 PM

Ok heres my Question:

I am using Windows 2000 Professional;

While the OS is booting, it is showing this Screen saying Windows 2000 Welcome, and that progress Bar on the bottom!

Now, I´ve seen on some Company PCs that they changed this Screen to their company Logo!

Do you know how to do that? Is there a registry key to it or something?

Thanx in advance, Stephan

**NoteMe** · Mar 28th, 2003, 02:18 PM

I know that on old 9X machines it was just to make a bmp file in 640*480 size and call it logo.ini and to put it in C:\ not sure if that will work on 2k....

**Sgt-Peppa** · Mar 28th, 2003, 02:32 PM

But if I take a look on my OS-Drive theres no such file as logo.ini? Not on my whole Harddrive, been searching for it! Souldnt bee there one already?

But I`ll try it anyways,

Is there a registry key which I can just set to a .bmp or .jpg or something?

Or is it possible to modify the file that controles the boot, and which one ist it?

Thanx Stephan

**NoteMe** · Mar 28th, 2003, 02:35 PM

I think it was a file in 95 and 98 but in Me they took it away. It generated it out from one of the system files. But you could still make that logo.ini file in ME and still make it work....but I don't know on 2K....

**Sgt-Peppa** · Mar 28th, 2003, 02:58 PM

Tryed that but still showing the old Windows 2000 Screen:

Based on NT-Technology (Yeah right! Based on New Technologie Technologie)

Anything else I coul try?

**Pirate** · Mar 28th, 2003, 03:15 PM

It seems to be a long story

. check this out http://www.epinions.com/content_2499256452

**Sgt-Peppa** · Mar 28th, 2003, 03:41 PM

Thanx, I took a quick look on that article and yes, it seems to be an endless story for such a goofy gimmick!

But I´ll tell my boss about it, he asked me to gather some Information about this, comany spirit an things like that you know! Hopefully he wil change his mind bout that after reading that article!

Thanx Pirate

Anybody else knows an easier way to do this?

**Pirate** · Mar 28th, 2003, 03:52 PM

No .

**mastermind94** · Apr 3rd, 2003, 12:05 PM

95/98/ME, Logo.SYS in the root drive, if it's not there, just create it

**Pirate** · Apr 3rd, 2003, 12:12 PM

Originally posted by mastermind94
95/98/ME, Logo.SYS in the root drive, if it's not there, just create it

Well , I know that , but he was talking about Win2000

**siyan** · Apr 3rd, 2003, 06:17 PM

There are "modified" ntoskrnl.exe files available. These, of course, have pictures that probably aren't your company logo

But if they've done it, maybe you can ask the author of one of these to make one fo ryou?

**Sastraxi** · Apr 3rd, 2003, 07:45 PM

I don't think it's hard work to do what they're asking at all.. of course, I do use Linux =P

**alphanumeric** · Apr 4th, 2003, 05:55 PM

Same thing but different from Littlewhitedog. I have done it, it's not that hard and doesn't take that long to do.

**alphanumeric** · Apr 4th, 2003, 06:09 PM

You could change the Logon Screen Wallpaper to your company logo. A little easier to do and has a similar effect.
I got this from Winguides
When you setup a background wallpaper for your desktop, the initial logon screen wallpaper is not changed and stays as the default Windows appearance. This tweak allows you to change the default wallpaper.

Open your registry and find the key below.
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
Modify the value of 'Wallpaper' to equal the path and filename of the bitmap (BMP) file you want to use as the background (e.g. 'c:\windows\mylogo.bmp').

In the same key, you can also modify these additional values
"TileWallpaper" 1=tiled 0=centered or stretched.
"WallpaperStyle" 2=stretched 0= tiled or centered

Restart Windows for the changes to take effect.

Thread: The Screen on Startup for Windows 2000 SOLVED

Thread Tools

Display