Customizing Windows XP
I’m just a user of Windows and don’t know much about it’s internals, but I learned that changing the boot- and login screens is not as straightforward as changing the desktop background: The boot-screen is more or less hardcoded in the boot image, as well as the login image. For the latter, it seems the image is “logonui.exe” and some fine examples dwell on the Internet, and you would just replace the original with the downloaded one – with all risks involved.
I few weeks ago I leaned about an application that not just holds a facilities to change the boot and logon images but also the looks of windows – in more detail than the standard Windows facility allows you to: for instance, the small buttons on top of each window get another look: down-error to minimize, a double up arrow to maximaize and double down arrow to “normal” size.
Not just that: you can download images for boot- and logon screens, installe them AND restore to the original with one click of a button. It’s just part of it’s functionality; there are far more system management tasks you can do with it. But it’s a nice add-on.
So Diana is now “customized”, and the others will follow 🙂
The pacakage isn’t free – you’ll have to pay a fee. But it’s safe for downloading themes.