boot screen - shutdown/hibernate screen skinnable?

August 24, 2004 8:55 AM from

Hello,

is there a way to skin the shutdown and hibernate screens? It is irritating to see such a nice bootscreen on startup, but when I shutdown the computer, I still get the normal windows shutdown screen.

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Reply #1 August 24, 2004 10:11 AM from

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Only Stardock Developers can tell if there is another way besides hacking.

Reply #2 August 24, 2004 10:31 AM from

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I'm not sure about the hibernate screen, but the shutdown screen will be skinned with any logon you apply with LogonStudio.

LogonStudio

Reply #3 August 24, 2004 10:33 AM from

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That is assuming your OS is XP.

Reply #4 August 24, 2004 11:48 AM from

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Thats strange. Bootscreens are skinned with the BootSkin Tool but the Shutdown Dialog is skinned with LogonStudio?

Reply #5 August 24, 2004 12:03 PM from

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Not really, the Logon, Logoff and Shutdown are all the same screen, except that in Shutdown it doesn't display the users logon bit.

Reply #6 August 24, 2004 12:05 PM from

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Just an after thought, if you are a standalone PC user at home, you may not have the Logon screen enabled so would go straight from the Bootscreen to your desktop without going through the Logon screen.

Reply #7 August 24, 2004 1:00 PM from

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Under the hood, a "boot" screen is ntoskrnl.exe, while a logon/off/hibernate screen is logonui.exe. Therefore you need different apps to "skin" 'em.
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Reply #8 August 24, 2004 2:17 PM from

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Okay, that makes sense then.
I just thought logon screen was different, because my logon screen uses 1024x768x24bpp while the bootscreen and the shutdown/hibernate screens all use the basic vga (?) 256 (?) color resolutions.

Reply #9 August 24, 2004 3:35 PM from

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shutdown/hibernate screens all use the basic vga (?) 256 (?) color resolutions.

they do?

which shutdown and hibernate screens would you be talking about?

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