How do I create a bootskin?

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First of all, I want to apologise if this has been catergorized wrong, and if I'm asking a question that's been answered dozens of times before. Now, to business. I'm trying to create a bootskin to match my desktop, but I'm not sure how to do it. I tried opening an existing one to see how it worked, and it went fine - until I came to the .ini file. I have no idea how to format the information in it. I know I need to tell it what the file names are, etc, but I have no idea how. I can't access any of the files in the one I disected, either. Could someone help me out? EDIT: If this is too difficult to explain, then could somebody just do it for me? I can send you the images I want to use.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
http://www.skinning.net/viewtopic.php?t=391
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The page doesn't seem to load for me... all I get is a white screen, but it says it's done (when obviously it's not).
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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Sorry Amol..... I should have checked....
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
No problem
And thanks, Master WOM. I've heard that Bootskin only works with 16 colour bitmaps. Is there any way I can work with 24bit colour?
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Nope... 16 color, 4 bit only.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You can 'work' with 24bit...but you will have to dither the resulting image to 4bit for a Bootskin to work...