re help with changing startup logo in article aa f fidonet org c doelle p f n z fidonet org c doelle writes hello brad monday april brad smalling wrote to crosspost all bs since i don t know your setup bs copy b win cnf vgalogo lgo vgalogo rle win com bs i grabbed this from supercharging windows by judd robbins great book bs this is also how you can put your own logo into the windows startup brad what is the procedure used to specially compress the bmp file i would to a rle file love to use some of my bmp files i have created as a logo screen thanks chris origin chris doelle f n z fidonet org i thought i d reply to this though i ain t brad at any case a lot of picture file viewers that will convert say between gif etc to bmp will convert to rle i know for a fact that paintshop shareware from cica desktop i think filename psvvv zip i think where vvv is the ver number if that s not true let me know and i ll post a corection this however will write your rle file with a bmp extension so you have to rename it now another thing this is from the windows faq your file has to be less than k at least that s what the faq says but mine wont work for more than about maybe they mend k i don t know your file has to fit vga size or whatever standard vga size is if you use a non vga screen e g cga ega svga there is also a way to do it but i thing instead of vgalogo lgo you use another file such as cgalogo lgo egalogo lgo or something i m not sure about this as i have a vga but i m sure you could find it in the faq a windows help ver of which is available at cica but don t konw the filename also your bmp has to be colours or less these specs rule out some of the good bmp s i found cartoon drawings work quite well as they have the advantage of looking good with little memory finally remember to save your current win com before and put your new win com in the windows directory also don t start windows from a directory where another win com is present as that is used instead of the one in the windows dir and win won t start share this fairly but don t take a slice of my pie pf mickey pe michael panayiotakis louray seas gwu edu ace uunet seas gwu edu louray how do make a ms windows grp file reflect a hd directory well i ain t always right but i ve never been wrong gd
