Hex Edit the splash Screen

Windowsall

Hey? Im curious I read a bit about hex editing splash screens n' stuff on winboards but am also curious on how to acctually do it?

Thanks Dan

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For what version of Windows?

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Windowsall

For 3x to 98???

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3.x the logo is a BMP file stored in VGALOGO.RLE, 9x screens can be edited my making BMPs and naming them logo.sys, logos.sys, and logosw.sys.

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Windowsall

on my PS/2 win 3.1 i found the file but how do i go about editing it?

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Rename it to .BMP and open in Paintbrush

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Windowsall

Your gonna be thinking im prtty stupid but it wont work i renamed it and it still wont let me opener up in paintbrush

TCPMeta

Change it back to a RLE and then open it in Paint. If it doesn't work then copy it to a floppy and edit it on a PC that has win9x.

Slash

There is no need to hex edit it. Just change logo.sys logow.sys and logos.sys and get what you want!

nightice

You'll need Paint Shop Pro to open an RLE.

DevilsJim89

nightice wrote:

You'll need Paint Shop Pro to open an RLE.

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So true. Download Paint Shop Pro 3.0 and put it on that Win3x machine. I forget if Windows 3.1 Paint can open .RLE files.

I remember 2 years ago I made a Windows 3.1x 10 year aniversary logo...haha....

Slash

I thought that was just a BMP...