A Guide to Replacing the "Windows Mobile" Bootscreen (WM5 Only)
I, for one, have never liked the "Windows Mobile" logo before startup, and was very happy when Xcilion found that it was replaceable. He released a couple of files with his Windows Vista Portable Edition QVGA, but they were left off the VGA one. Xcilion will hopefully release a VGA one, but in the meantime, I have modified the QVGA Bootscreen so it now works with vga devices. It is still in qvga, but it does work. This is only a temporary fix, i'm sure the image xcilion comes up with will be much better and optimised for VGA. The file is too big to post here, so I have uploaded it here instead: http://savefile.com/files/52736
The following instructions are for replacing the bootscreen with the images that Xcilion used in his skin, but you can use them with any image. Of course, VGA users use a 480x640 image, and QVGA users use a 240x320 image.
Note that for VGA, the name of the image is welcomehead.192, and for QGA, the name of the image is welcomehead.96.
Originally Posted by Xcskins Readme File
WARNING:
THIS INVOLVES REPLACING SYSTEM FILES. WE WILL NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
IF THIS OPERATION HARMS YOUR DEVICE!
DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!
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Installation:
Step 1)
Backing up the original Bootscreen image.
Open your device's File Explorer and go to /Windows.
Search for an image named 'welcomehead.96.png'.
Copy that file (Tap & Hold on the image's name and tap on Copy).
Paste it somewhere else on your device. Preferably on a removeable storage card (SD, Mini-SD, etc)
Paste the file by tap & holding on an empty space in the file explorer and tapping on paste in the context menu.
Now the file is backed up!
Step 2)
Take the Bootscreen skin you've chosen, and put it on your device.
Now, you need a third party file explorer, because Microsoft, for security/safety reasons, disabled the Built-in File explorer (and ActiveSync Explorer)
from replacing system files.
Resco Explorer is a good 3rd Party explorer but there are tons of freeware explorers out there to do the job.
Paste the Bootscreen skin in the /Windows folder with the 3rd party file explorer.
A pop-up will appear asking you to overwrite the original file. Overwrite the file.
You will also probably get a system warning about replacing a system file. This can be ignored.
Please note, as stated above, that this only works on Windows Mobile 5 devices.
Last edited by jfoster193; 09-09-06 at 05:09 PM.
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I think after installing some 3rd party utilities (not sure which one...WA, iL, PB) this bootscreen (even the original one) becomes just white...
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My Windows Mobile screen went away "by itself". After Soft Reset, I get blue Dell screen, then blank white screen, then everything loads up. I have not messed with the registry, so I am guessing it is the result of some software I installed ????
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I think after installing some 3rd party utilities (not sure which one...WA, iL, PB) this bootscreen (even the original one) becomes just white...
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My Windows Mobile screen went away "by itself". After Soft Reset, I get blue Dell screen, then blank white screen, then everything loads up. I have not messed with the registry, so I am guessing it is the result of some software I installed ????
Same here. Not certain what exactly made it go away, but the file is there, no matter which file is there I only get a white screen.
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After Soft Reset, I get blue Dell screen, then blank white screen, then everything loads up. I have not messed with the registry, so I am guessing it is the result of some software I installed ????
