how to make bootskins and logons?

May 12, 2004 7:21 PM from

Does SkinStudio cover them, if so how do I make/edit them, if not what is a good program that does?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

skinning

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Reply #1 May 12, 2004 9:47 PM from

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There's a BootSkin tutorial here http://www.wstaylor.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2177#2177

And there's a link to a helper program in this thread.. https://www.wincustomize.com/browser/msgboard.asp?BID=WCS&id=265560

I don't know of any LogonStudio tutorials, but it's not hard to figure out if you use existing logons as a guide.

Reply #2 May 12, 2004 10:27 PM from

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wich post is the link to the "helper" in? (the link you posted just takes me to a larger window of the maessage board)

Reply #3 May 12, 2004 10:34 PM from

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http://martin.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=1886

Reply #4 May 12, 2004 10:40 PM from

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I didnt know that SkinStudio could create, I thought that it was just for ing logons.....THANKS!!!!!!!

Reply #5 May 12, 2004 10:45 PM from

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my bad... Didnt know that LOGONSTUDIO could create new skins, thought it was only to them

Reply #6 May 12, 2004 11:08 PM from

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Don't know why my messageboard links don't work anymore........ do this...... type bootskin in the search box and look for BootSkin ini Maker in the results.

Reply #7 April 14, 2005 11:23 AM from

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Photoshop is the best program to use to create skins.
To make them compatible with Bootskin, you have to go to Image: Mode: Index Color: Then set the number of colors to 16 an lastly save your image as a 4 bit bmp file

Reply #8 April 14, 2005 8:06 PM from

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I would like to know how to make logons that have movable shut down buttons, central logon windows...such at the type adni does so well, Tiggz, Steve Grenier...I know it involves creating in resHack and then importing, but I don't know the details. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Email

Reply #9 April 15, 2005 3:09 AM from

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When I change my boot skin, my computer doesnt boot. It loading up till the moment the bootskin should apear and it
restarts, then i have to boot in safe mode to change my bootskin to the original Windows skin.

Reply #10 April 15, 2005 11:43 AM from

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Thats a problem with your BIOS Nasok666, You may have to check to see if its the latest updates. Also, some older computers (expecially older Dell's) don't seem to work with OS editing software

Reply #11 April 15, 2005 4:06 PM from

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Koasati your links to the wstaylor tutorial need to be updated as we have changed our name. We are now skinning.net and here is the link to the best tutorial on bootskins on the net:

http://www.skinning.net/viewtopic.php?t=391

Reply #12 April 15, 2005 10:58 PM from

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Now if only the images were there, sigh....but the tutorial is really good even without pics.

Thanx kona.

Reply #13 April 16, 2005 1:12 AM from

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I just checked - the images ARE there. You might need to be logged in to view them. I will check it out.

Reply #14 April 17, 2005 1:24 AM from

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I just checked WHILE I was logged in and they weren't.

No biggie, I hate bootskins anyway, I need COLOR, I'll stick with Logons

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