Personalise Boot Screen (Vista 32-bit)
Source: Development Dan’s Blog
(32-bit only for now)(For Vista Users Only)(Requires knowledge of taking ownership of files and folders)
There
is finally an easy way (easier than before) to change your Windows
Vista boot screen and use any high resolution photo as your boot
screen.Instructions can be found during installation
Download: Vista Boot Logo Generator
Instructions:
By default, Vista’s high resolution boot logo is NOT ENABLED. To enable the hi-res boot logo, you must enable the /NOGUIBOOT option using MSCONFIG (Start > msconfig.exe).
High-res Vista boot logos come in two different sizes: 800×600 and 1024×768. Both sizes are full 24-bit colour. To generate a valid boot logo file, you must supply BOTH sizes.
This program currently only generates the boot logo file (winload.exe.mui). It’s up to you to copy it to the correct location for it to be loaded. In most cases, the correct folder is:
%windir%\System32\en-US
Under Visa’s tighter security settings, you will probably not have write permissions for the above file. So before you can overwrite it, you will have to take ownership of the file, then give yourself write permissions. If you need to do this, type the following two commands at a Command Prompt:
takeown /f C:\Windows\System32\en-US\winload.exe.mui
cacls C:\Windows\System32\en-US\winload.exe.mui /G YourUserName:F
Obviously, in the second command, replace YourUserName with your own Windows user name.
If User Account Control gives you hassle, it’s probably easiest to disable it (at least temporarily).
One final bit of advice - make sure you back up your original winload.exe.mui (boot logo) file before you go overwriting, just in case you want to return to the original!
