[comp.windows.ms.programmer] Windows *.RLE files and the startup screen

bigd@dorsai.com (David Shapiro) (05/24/91)

I recently saw a file which contained some .RLE files, so that you could 
change the default Windows startup screen. The author states that while he 
doesn't know exactly what's going on, apparently Windows "compiles" an 
????LOGO.RLE file into one of the runtime .EXEs, which is then showed as the 
startup screen, when you run SETUP.EXE. I used the Whitewater Resource 
Toolkit on c:\windows\system\user.exe, and WRT came out with a category it 
called "BITNAP" which it couldn't edit. Is this the .RLE file? Is there any 
way to directly swap them, without going through SETUP over and over again?



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Kevin_Zelhart@f24.n116.z1.fidonet.org (Kevin Zelhart) (05/31/91)

Yes there is a way to change the start up screen w/o going thr**ough seThere is 
a small pascal program on the board here in nashville that will do this 
replacement. The file is called newstart.zip. the # for EET-BBS here in 
Nashville is: (615) 353-3476
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jeroen_pluimers@f521.n281.z2.fidonet.org (Jeroen Pluimers) (06/02/91)

Hello David!

In a msg of <24 May 91>, David Shapiro writes to All:

 DS> I recently saw a file which contained some .RLE files, so that you
 DS> could change the default Windows startup screen. The author states
 DS> this the .RLE file? Is there any way to directly swap them, without
 DS> going through SETUP over and over again?

This is completely off-topic in the WINDOWS.PROG programming area (you should 
hav asked this in a user area) but the program ELANA.EXE does the job for you.
Send mail to my interet adres on how to get it.


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