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Change Windows 95/98/ME Logos + Desktop Wallpaper
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Step by Step Guidelines
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Are you already tired of that same [read "boring" :)] Win95/98/ME startup
Logo, whenever your computer boots up, and/or of the same old Wallpaper
displayed as background on your Windows Desktop?
If you answered YES, read on...
To replace the Microsoft default startup Logo (C:\LOGO.SYS, BMP format,
320x400, 256 colors), always showing up upon bootup, with a new picture (.BMP,
.GIF or .JPG, 640x480 or even larger, 256 or even 16 million colors, different
EVERY time), and/or "admire" a new (different EVERY time) Desktop Wallpaper
(BitMaP = BMP) when you start the Windows GUI, follow these steps:
NEWLOGO.TXT Contents:
* Windows 9x/ME bootup logo native MS-DOS Driver, info + original logos:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080607223336/http://logosys.logotypes.se/
A. First you need PKUNZIP.EXE, part of the PKWARE PKZIP + PKUNZIP v2.50
32-bit, THE essential DOS ZIPping/unZIPping tools, LFNs (Long File Names)
compliant ONLY in a Windows 95/98/ME DOS box [203 KB, no nag shareware]:
http://www.filegate.net/pkware/pkdos/PK250DOS.EXE
Place all PKWARE files into a new folder called C:\ZIP.
Edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS file (both located in C:\ root) with
Notepad/Sysedit in Windows or EDIT.COM in DOS, and add C:\ZIP at the end of
your PATH line. Example:
SET PATH=C:\;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\MYSTUFF;C:\ZIP;
Logo=1
In example above your custom *.BMP and/or *.SYS logos (like the ones included
here) are located in the C:\9XLOGOS folder.
Change drive/partition letter and/or folder name if different on your PC.
Win9x/ME logos are actually uncompressed Windows bitmaps (.BMP format), RGB
(Red-Green-Blue) encoded, with the .SYS extension. Each bitmap MUST be EXACTLY
320x400 pixels in size, have EXACTLY 256 colors and MUST NOT be RLE (Run
Length Encoded) COMPRESSED to be recognized by the 9x OS as VALID logo!
File size does NOT matter. Animated logos are usually LARGER than static logos
to include additional changing colors hex code.
Look for example at the size of my animated LOGO.SYS (included).
Static (non-animated) logos are 129,078 or 129,080 Bytes in size.
How to create animated/static Win9x/ME logos using 3rd party image tools:
http://www.nucleus.com/~kmcmurdo/win95logo.html
CAUTION:
Do NOT modify ANY animated boot logo using MS Paint or ANY other 3rd party
graphic editor NOT supporting Windows bitmap animation palette, because they
will remove its animation code, converting it into a static one!
More techno details:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,,1167933,.asp
How does spinning BMP palette work:
http://www.qtam-computer.com/a_9808.html
Windows Logo Modding Guide:
http://www.virtual-hideout.net/guides/windows_logo_mod/
The /NR parameter above forces ZIPAPER to extract the BMPs in the order they
are zipped into LOGOS9X.ZIP, each time you run Zipaper, which stores this
information in a file it creates the first time you run it, called
LOGOS9X.ZPA (if your zip file name is LOGOS9X.ZIP), also located in C:\ZIP in
this example.
Run ZIPAPER without any switches from any DOS prompt for usage details.
F. Use one of these free(ware) DOS 16-bit graphics viewers + conversion tools:
- Ombra 7.23 [96 KB]:
http://www.widus.it/ew/rick_stuff/ombra723.zip
More info:
http://www.widus.it/ew/rick.htm
- PictView 1.94 [105 KB]:
http://www.pictview.com/pictview.zip
More info:
http://www.pictview.com/
- ShowJPG 2.81 [22 KB]:
http://www.pictview.com/showjpg.zip
More info:
http://www.pictview.com/showjpg.htm
- Dvpeg 3.0L [153 KB, open source]:
http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/~praetzel/dvpeg/dvpeg30l.zip
More info:
http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/~praetzel/dvpeg/
- MultiMedia (MM) Viewer/Player 1.66 [651 KB]:
http://www.angelfire.com/co/DENDERMOTORS/multm166.zip
More info:
http://www.angelfire.com/co/DENDERMOTORS/coolmind.html
to display a full screen [any VGA/(X)SVGA mode up to 1600x1200 screen
resolution, even in true color: 16 million colors] picture whenever you
start/load Windows from a batch file, replacing the Windows default built-in
startup [read "boring" :)] logo.
These tools require a VESA/VBE 2.0/3.0 compliant video card and MS-DOS 5/6 or
Windows 95/98/ME.
Install them in the same C:\ZIP directory mentioned above, and *READ* their
manuals to learn how to use them.
Add a line to your CONFIG.SYS file for Ombra or PictView, AFTER your last
DEVICE/DEVICEHIGH command, to display your favorite full screen .BMP image
every time you boot (see below), BEFORE starting Windows, while processing
all commands listed in your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. It's cool to see a
new picture on the screen, instead of being bored with the same scrolling
messages of drivers/TSRs/programs loading from your CONFIG.SYS and
AUTOEXEC.BAT every time upon bootup. Example of CONFIG.SYS line:
The /Q and /S parameters are MANDATORY, forcing Ombra to return to the DOS
command line to allow processing of the next batch command, while leaving the
picture on the screen.
The --NOCLS and --Q parameters are MANDATORY, forcing PictView to return to
the DOS command line to allow processing of the next batch command, while
leaving the picture on the screen.
Then make these your LAST AUTOEXEC.BAT lines, to have ZIPAPER extract a NEW
.BMP file from BMPS.ZIP (also located in C:\ZIP) every time you run it:
C:
CD\ZIP
C:\ZIP\ZIPAPER.EXE C:\ZIP\BMPS.ZIP C:\ZIP\PKUNZIP.EXE /NR
WIN.COM %1 %2 %3
You need to have all (Zipaper supports a maximum of 500 files in one ZIP
archive) your 256 colors (number of colors is optional) full screen VGA
(640x480 or larger) bitmaps, (with the .BMP extension), zipped using PKZIP.EXE
into the BMPS.ZIP archive, and place it also in C:\ZIP.
You can use one of these popular graphic formats with Ombra or PictView: .BMP,
.GIF or .TGA (PictView + ShowJPG support also the .JPG format). Just mention
the file extension on the command line (examples):
C:\ZIP\OMBRA.EXE C:\PICS\MYPIC.GIF /Q /S
or:
G. You can use the same procedure (above) to have a new bitmap displayed as
your desktop background wallpaper, every time you load Windows. All you have
to do is start Win9x from a DOS batch file to include these lines, or add them
at the end of your AUTOEXEC.BAT (example):
C:
CD\ZIP
C:\ZIP\ZIPAPER.EXE C:\ZIP\BMPS.ZIP C:\ZIP\PKUNZIP.EXE /NR
WIN.COM %1 %2 %3
Prior to this, zip up all your full screen size wallpapers/bitmaps (MUST be in
.BMP format), 640x480x256 colors (size and number of colors are optional) into
a zip file called BMPS.ZIP, and place it also in C:\ZIP.
FYI:
You can create/edit your own tiny BMPs to display "custom" patterns:
experiment with different colors + sizes (the sky's the limit) by using a
[free(ware)] painting tool:
http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#GRA
I have used only basic colors in MINI.BMP, but you can use any color combos
and/or factors: gamma, brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, luminance etc.
If using MS Paint, make sure your Desktop screen resolution is 32-bit (true
color = 16 million colors) before running MSPAINT.EXE. That way you can create
a new BMP of same resolution as your screen from scratch without having to
change BMP resolution from within MS Paint.
Because MINI.BMP is only 9x1 pixels in size, it doesn't matter it is 32-bit
(true color = 16 million colors), it takes very little Windows memory to
display.
Have fun.
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WRAP-UP
* It's cool to have a bunch of bitmaps in a zip file, so they don't take much
disk space, and have Windows show up a different full screen wallpaper every
time it loads. I have over 450 Windows style desktop wallpapers (with the .BMP
extension), 640x480x256 colors bitmaps, compressed into a single ZIP file
(BMPS.ZIP) which takes only 53 MB. The individual (non-compressed) .BMP files
would occupy over 135 MB!
I also archived 480 Windows logo bitmaps (.BMP), 320x400x256 colors into a
single archive (LOGOS9X.ZIP), to have a different logo shown each time Windows
boots. This zip is 16 MB in size, instead of 48 MB, taken by the actual files.
To make all this work, I start both Windows 98 SE and WfWG 3.11 (using Win98
dual-boot feature) from a batch file called W9X.BAT (included), you can view
with Notepad.
* You can use SUNKNWIN.BMP (included) 640x480 pixels, 256 colors, BitMaP RGB
format as your Desktop background wallpaper.
More pics:
- MYBMPS.ZIP [BMP format, 1.61 MB, FREEware]:
http://www.mdgx.com/files/MYBMPS.ZIP
- AXJPGS.ZIP [JPG format, 1.64 MB, FREEware]:
http://www.mdgx.com/files/AXJPGS.ZIP
- Conny's original artwork:
http://connect.to/conny/
- My Site Logos page:
http://www.mdgx.com/logo.htm