Startup screen

[ssahl]

Is there a way to view, access, edit & or change the Windows98 startup screen? Without using any 3rd party software. I know you can do this to the Windows98 shutdown screen but I couldnt remember if you could also do this to the startup as well.

[ktkendall]

I have Win98 and use my own startup screen by putting a file named logo.sys in the root directory. I believe it is actually a .bmp file though. Over in C:\windows I have LogoS.sys and LogoW.sys which I believe are the shutdown screen files which must be named that but are actually .bmp files also.

[ktkendall]

Just looked in my Win98 machine!
You can use paintbrush to view these files and they ARE .bmp's.
logo.sys goes in your root directory under C:\ that will be your startup picture. logow.sys, goes under C:\windows that is the shutting down picture, and logos.sys, also under C:\windows is that screen that says "it is now safe to turn off your computer"
So create or download whatever bmp file you want, rename the standard windows ones (ie. logos.old, logow.old) and name your new ones what the other ones were named with the .sys!

[ssahl]

Ok I knew about the LogoS.sys & LogoW.sys files in the C:\windows directory. I will try making a BMP saving it
and changing the name to logo.sys and putting it in the C:\ I thought that I had done that before, but I thought it was already there. After doing a few installs of windows98 I kept my eye out for that file but never did see it. Where does windows see the file for the startup screen?

[ktkendall]

I think I know what you are questioning, because there is not a logo.sys untill you put one there and I remember wondering where is the default startup screen?? I think if windows finds logo.sys in root it will use it and if not it uses it's default one, but I don't know where it is either. I just do know that putting a bmp named logo.sys in root is working on mine.

[ktkendall]

Your right, I just renamed logo.sys which is under C:\ and rebooted and got the windows default startup. When I put logo.sys back in I get my customized startup screen. I don't know where the default one resides but with a little persistence I'm sure you can find it. If your Win 98 doesn't work as mine then I'm sure somewhere in the registry is how mine works that if there is a logo.sys in root, then it uses it, and if yours does not then probably registry setting is different. There are many good sites with downloads that have all kind of registry, and startup tweaks, don't have any handy, but that is where I learned to alter mine!