then I have to tell you, You are wrong!!!!

i would say it is "safe"

however, changing the boot screen that way is a pretty good "hack"

that makes it look a little shady - lol

it has advantages over altering the kernel file, though

I had no problem with boot skins for vista. I have it on two machines one of which is a laptop

It's my right to inform people here that's why we have forums.

Bootskin vista takes ownership of the file in system32 solfer and modifies it and modifies it's 2 image reosources for different image resolutions.

But if you want to change boot screen in all vista cersion with softwre there is no other way out. sadly . But i will be back soon after my researches and i promise i will create a freeware which will do this task easily.

Stardock software infact does not change any system files. None of SD's software ever has, nor can I envision SD producing Software that would.

Stardock is a Certified Microsoft Gold Partner simply because it does not alter anything in the system files.

In a prior thread, you met with some critique. I don't see your approach to this site and the software it supports (among other worthy products) has changed.

My approach has changed bt i am now now exhausted trying to modify one file since past 8 months. I tried  everything

And i dont want to go with regedit trick . (By that i hae already published logon screen changer http://download.cnet.com/Logon-Screen-Changer/3000-2105_4-75218509.html?tag=mncol;lst ).

I want to find an alternative method like writing own gina or microsoft credential provider.

EDIt now i also administrate idealprogrammer.com and idealprogrammer.tv

So if you dont know ihvae changed but i really love tweaking and if some task is not completed i try again and again and i mus say i will some day find a solution

in my life.

I thought these stardock people might give me a hint but they didnt

okay dont help but i will try to use the new credential provider method.