Is there any way to do this with Win95? I'd really like to replace my
startup image :-|
I wish Microsoft would be a bit more creative with their logos- A rippling
flag on clouds is soooo old.

"Tony[B]" <ben### [at] catholicorg> wrote in message
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> > Nice! I like it!
>
> Thanks! I'm glad you do. :)
>
> > In Win9x the splash screen is only 320x400 pixels. In Win2000 it's
640x480
> ?
>
> Yep. But instead of 256 colors, we only have 16. :\
>
> > The O in POV look strangely familiar, yet not official. Hmm, can't let
go?
> > ;-)
>
> No. :) I always liked mine more. I'll use the official one when needed,
but
> for my own uses I'll employ mine.
>
> > Do you have any control over the gray area at the bottom? Over the blue
> bar?
> > Or is it added automatically? Does the blue bar "cycle" as in Win9x?
>
> Oh, sure I could have changed it all, but I chose to leave it as-is. As
far
> as I can tell, it grabs that 10 pixel high blue area and just moves it to
> the right and wraps to the left again to repeat, so I could put anything I
> want there for it to shift. I can't tell it not to do it, though. The
> "Starting up..." part has a blue progress bar that increments in separate
> little blocks. The color of the background of the whole thing (not the
grey
> part, but like for the entire image) is determined by the first color of
the
> pallete and the color of the progress bar by the second color in the
> pallete. I can change everything except the fact that the blue part cycles
> and the little progress bar appears, so basically, I'd rather not go
beyond
> the blue band in my tweaking.
>
>

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