Sonic XP theme

L31mr0d

Don't really know if this should be here, but can't really see which other section it belongs to. Anyway, move it if its for another section.

I started looking into ways to change the look of my windows xp desktop. A few hacks of the ntoskrnl.exe and logonui.exe in the system32 folder later using reshacker and i've gotten my own custom bootskin and logon screen. The sonic theme came out of getting KEGA, a great sega emulator, and the whole sonic series (ah nostalga) i designed the desktop wallpaper bootskin and logon skin myself, but the windows theme is called dogmax and applied using windowsblinds and the windows media player skin is called basic5. I have also attached the 2 midi files i use for startup and shutdown, keeping with the sonic theme.

what do you think?

8T8

Just so you know there are various utilites that change the boot screen and logon for you without having to go to the trouble of messing with reshacker.

Stardocks free utilites which dont alter the system files;
Logon Studio
Boot Skin

Utilities which do hack the system files also free;
Boot Editor
Logon Loader

L31mr0d

i know, bootskin doesn't work for my mobo. I used booteditor as well but it was very glitchy, kept randomly shutting down and it wouldn't change the progress bar for me. Plus with reshacker you can just make a copy of the ntoskrnl, set up a seperate boot (for safety) in the boot.ini file and mess around with as much as you want.