Ever wanted to get rid of the ugly Windows splash screen that you encounter on boot (pictured below)?

I have specified steps below for you to customize your own Windows splash screen. Please, only do this if you are comfortable with modifying system files.

1. Create the graphic that you would like in place of the default splash screen. This graphic can only be in 16 bit color, and in 4 bit bitmap format with of 640 x 480 resolution.
2. Open up your BOOT.INI file in a plain-text editor. In this instance, I will be using Notepad. To edit this, do Start > Run, and in the text-box enter “notepad c:\boot.ini” (without quotes).
3. Go to the last line of the file. It should say something like multi(0)disk(0) etc.
4. At the end of this line, enter the following options: /noguiboot and /bootlogo (omit the ‘and’). Please make sure there is a space between these two options. Once this is done, save the file and exit your editor.
5. Place the bitmap of the file that you created in step 1 in the C:\WINDOWS directory.

Upon your next reboot, your Windows splash screen will be the one that you have made.