Re: show logo at boot as Win9x/2000/XP

From: Oscar (oguallar_at_betaprint.com)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:21:35 +0100

I need to show the logo just after the power up, so the solution
is inside the code in my bootloader or platform initialization.
I have a geode platform. Do you know how can I do this ?

"Valter Minute" <vminute@REMOVEMEinwind.it> escribió en el mensaje
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> "Oscar" <oguallar@betaprint.com> wrote in news:uWrTeLE$DHA.2800
> @tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl:
>
> > How can do that ? Thanks.
> >
>
> You can add an application that used GDI functions to the startup
> sequence (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\init) immediately after GWES (). In this
> way, your logo will be shown when the OS is almost ready to interact
> with the user, so you should display it briefly.
> If you want to show it during the system initialization, you have to
> show it inside your bootloader or your platform initialization code. In
> this case the logo could be displayed just after the power-up and will
> stay on screen until GWES and the shell (or the main application) are
> started. This solution is very platform-dependent because you cannot
> use GDI or other OS API inside the bootloader or OEMInit and other
> platform initialization routines.
>
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> Valter Minute
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