Question: How do I change the Start Up and Shut Down screens for my
Windows 95/98 Operating System?Answer: For Windows 95 and 98 there are two ways to do it, Auto and
Manual. There are many freeware and shareware programs available on the
Web that will change it for you. You download and install the
program and it automatically changes the screens for you every
time you re-start your computer. Winfiles.com has a page that offers links to
many of these programs.___________________________________________________ Instructions to change the Windows 95 Start-Up and Shut
Down screens by the manual method.How It Works When Windows 95 is booted the system checks to see if the start-
up logo should be displayed. It does this by consulting the file
MSDOS.SYS. This is a text file that allows various boot options
to be specified. There are two entries in this file that
determine whether the start-up logo is displayed. First, the
entry 'BootGUI=1' tells the system to start the GUI interface.
If this value is 0 only the command line interface (DOS) is
started. Secondly, the entry 'Logo=1' tells the system to
display a start-up graphic. Since this is the default, the entry
doesn't have to be written in MSDOS.SYS! If the value is 0 then
the GUI is booted without displaying the start-up logo.
If the system determines that a start-up logo is to be displayed
it attempts to display the file C:\LOGO.SYS. If this file is not
found then a default start-up graphic that is embedded in IO.SYS
is displayed. The purpose of C:\LOGO.SYS appears to be to allow
for local customizations, language or otherwise. This is most
visible to those users who have installed the Plus! Pack. During
the installation of the Plus! Pack, a new C:\LOGO.SYS is written
which contains the Plus! logo.
When Windows 95 is shut down, it displays two logos. The first
tells the user to wait whilst the system completes all necessary
housekeeping, such as writing any necessary information to disk.
This logo is contained in the file LOGOW.SYS. The second logo
tells the user that it is safe to switch off the computer. This
logo is contained in the file LOGOS.SYS. Both these files are
stored in the same directory as the Windows 95 installation. For
the majority of users this will be C:\WINDOWS.
It is a fundamental requirement that the three files LOGO.SYS,
LOGOW.SYS, and LOGOS.SYS all have the following properties:
1. The file is stored as a Windows Bitmap. Despite the '.SYS'
extension, the file is really a '.BMP' in disguise.
2. The size of the logo is 320 pixels wide by 400 pixels high.
3. The color depth is 8 bits per pixel. In other words, it's a
256 color bitmap.
4. The file size is exactly 129,078 bytes.