Windows 2000 'Mini' boot screen

[SuperThecomputergeek]

Personally, I like the windows 2000 beta 3 bootscreen better than the RTM one. is there any way i can replace the boot screen in RTM to this one using resource hacker?

if you don't know what I'm talking about then here's the image:

[Lukas Marsik]

Personally, I like the windows 2000 beta 3 bootscreen better than the RTM one. is there any way i can replace the boot screen in RTM to this one using resource hacker?

if you don't know what I'm talking about then here's the image:
~snip~

A simple resource replace won't cut it as the offsets of the progress bar, animated bar & their proportions are different, you'd need to do some patching / hex editing to change those

[SuperThecomputergeek]

do you (or anyone reading this) know what to do to do that?

[Windows OS]

A simple resource replace won't cut it as the offsets of the progress bar, animated bar & their proportions are different, you'd need to do some patching / hex editing to change those

Yeah, he's right. However, I found a website full of Windows 2000 custom boot screens from back in the day (You know it's from back in the day when there are some Gorillaz boot screens). I won't link to it since some of the boot screens are PG-13 rated material (a couple of them might even be considered to be R rated material), but a simple Google search will bring you to the page. Here is one example:

Notice that the boot screen progress bar box is in identical position as the stock 2000 boot screen. Here is one I quickly whipped up based on the 2000 beta 3 boot screen:

[Raritize]

If we had the full Win2K kernel source, it'd be a pretty simple modification. The progress bar is placed on the boot screen from ntos\init\bootvid.c, while XP uses ntos\init\anim.c (Since XP has a animated boot screen)

It'd take a bit of modifying, but it's theoretically possible.

[nazguz]

if you'd know in what file that bootscreen is located
then it can be done, as it is a simple win32 window with progressbar
and resource hacker allows you to manipulate win32 controls and positions

or if it is not in kernel then you could just replace whole file responsible
as long as you replace internal version to match

[Raritize]

It's way more then just a progress bar. That's 16 individual squares placed in the correct order. When it goes up a precentage, it displays the square.

The square isn't even a Win32 item. This is right as the kernel is being executed.

[DJ Deedahx]

It's way more then just a progress bar. That's 16 individual squares placed in the correct order. When it goes up a precentage, it displays the square.

...what? Math please, it's 6.25% per square...

The square isn't even a Win32 item. This is right as the kernel is being executed.

Please explain...? How is it not?

[Raritize]

This is before Windows is even initialized. The squares are created on-screen using this function:

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VidScreenToBufferBlt(Square1, 0, 0, 6, 9, 4);
  VidScreenToBufferBlt(Square2, 8, 0, 6, 9, 4);
  VidScreenToBufferBlt(Square3, 16, 0, 6, 9, 4);

And this is the VidScreenToBufferBlt function itself:

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InbvBufferToScreenBlt(
    PUCHAR Buffer,
    ULONG x,
    ULONG y,
    ULONG width,
    ULONG height,
    ULONG lDelta
    );

Note: This may be incorrect, since this is Windows XP's anim C file.

[Stephanos]

The square isn't even a Win32 item. This is right as the kernel is being executed.

This is indeed correct. By the time the progress bar is displayed, the Win32 subsystem isn't even initialised yet.

[nazguz]

wait wait

does he want the BOOT sequence
or logon sequence, as I was talking about logon since his screenshot looks like so

[Lukas Marsik]

wait wait

does he want the BOOT sequence
or logon sequence, as I was talking about logon since his screenshot looks like so

The screenshot is Beta 3 bootscreen... Since when did login have a chunked progressbar?

[nazguz]

the small window asociated me to it

[Raritize]

I'll take a look at this anyways, see what I can do.

[ColonelPhantom]

the small window asociated me to it

I think the logon window is smaller and it also doesn't have a picture. Also the text : "Starting up...", which implies booting up.