Windows XP All Editions SP3 and SP2 with SP1 (RTM) Boot Screen Proyect

[MoielHumano]

hello it's me again, I want to do a project which consists of changing the ugly and horrible bootscreens of windows xp sp2 and sp3 in all its editions (except for the x64 editions of windows xp)

and put the glorious and beautiful bootscreens of sp1 or rtm in default, but without bootskin xp and do it using the iso files and modifying things, do you think it's possible?

[Meow]

hello it's me again, I want to do a project which consists of changing the ugly and horrible bootscreens of windows xp sp2 and sp3 in all its editions (except for the x64 editions of windows xp)

and put the glorious and beautiful bootscreens of sp1 or rtm in default, but without bootskin xp and do it using the iso files and modifying things, do you think it's possible?

The Windows boot screen resources in XP are located in ntoskrnl.exe. You can modify it, but you have to also then re sign it using your own certificate and then also remove the original from dllcache. I don't know why you would want to replace the boot screen though, the only thing that changed from RTM August 2001 to the final updates released in 2017 was the removal of the edition text, and simplification of the copyright text. The color of the moving lines was also set to just blue across all editions.

[MoielHumano]

hello it's me again, I want to do a project which consists of changing the ugly and horrible bootscreens of windows xp sp2 and sp3 in all its editions (except for the x64 editions of windows xp)

and put the glorious and beautiful bootscreens of sp1 or rtm in default, but without bootskin xp and do it using the iso files and modifying things, do you think it's possible?

The Windows boot screen resources in XP are located in ntoskrnl.exe. You can modify it, but you have to also then re sign it using your own certificate and then also remove the original from dllcache. I don't know why you would want to replace the boot screen though, the only thing that changed from RTM August 2001 to the final updates released in 2017 was the removal of the edition text, and simplification of the copyright text. The color of the moving lines was also set to just blue across all editions.

Yes I know, but it looks ugly that it is only called plain windows xp and does not have a badge on the bootscreen

[AyamiOoruri29]

The only thing there is TuneUp Utilities, called TuneUp Styler, allowing to create custom boot screen (does work on Windows XP as well).

[dixieLH]

you only see it for ~5 seconds -_-

[AyamiOoruri29]

Here's the screenshot, which you can create/load boot screen (including ntoskrnl.exe file). it is possible load supported formats such as bmp (bitmap) although It works fine on TuneUp Styler.

Although it requires TuneUp Utilities installed, literally I installed it 2013 version.

[Meow]

you only see it for ~5 seconds -_-

Yeah I never really understood why people change the boot screen. It's only there for a short time before it goes to the login screen.

[WinSxS]

and put the glorious and beautiful bootscreens of sp1 or rtm in default, but without bootskin xp and do it using the iso files and modifying things, do you think it's possible?

Open ntoskrnl (and its multiprocessor equivalent: ntkrnlmp.exe, ntkrnlpa.exe, ntkrpamp.exe) with ResHack.
Replace first bitmap with something what you want. SP3 (probably SP2 also) ignores overlay of Professional, which is located in another bitmap.
Remember, XP's bootscreen used different color palette and I modified it successfully in Paint Shop Pro 5, because Photoshop lacks this function works properly.

I did it myself for myself and because I can't upload whole file, here are the resources for manually replacing:

https://mega.nz/file/O40m1ArB#j4iIlrWnP ... LQ0B3iUZAk