Hi everybody!

I've been working on this bootscreen for a few weeks now to replace the standard Windows 2000 boot screen.
The 2000 animated bar is much more suitable for the glass bar.

I took the glass bar from Vishal's Windows 7 Bootscreen for Vista, which can be found here: Link.
Unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to extract the actual image from the given Vista files, so I used the screen shot.

Would be awesome to move the progressbar in 2000's NTOSKRNL like in XP's. Anyone know some hex codes to change?

EDIT: Screenshot

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Update: I fixed some dithering artifacts...
Also added a visible progressbar.

I might consider adding a Windows flag logo on it...
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You can start by with a little fiddling around with the palettes on a standard graphics editor with a resource hacker for ntoskrnl.exe. Here is a guide to do it with Paint Shop Pro 7 (you can download an evaluation version of it if you look around)

Hmm, I like more mine version of boot screen:

http://rapidshare.com/files/180414101/win2...boot_screen.zip

Heh, it seems theres no better way to dither that gradient bar.

Photoshop's diffusion works better sometimes, and pattern is better the other times.

The 16 colour barrier is a real challenge, which is partially remedied in Windows Vista, and completely rebuilt for 7.
So, maybe I'll put in a Windows flag in shiny chrome (meaning grayscale so I don't have to reduce the colors for the glowy bar).

Yes I do know how to reshack NTOSKRNL, but I wanted to move the scrolled region up to the centre, and change the speed of the scrolling. Hoping to stumble upon the right hexcodes I need to change...

To ALL http://www.geocities.com/thejjoelc/XPbootcolors.html#make