Thinks I've juste seen that you have "delete" the link to download it. If i could make my own skin what is the correct "bit depth" for making good skin, please? Or can you explain to me where can i read a "tutorial" for make bootskin skins. thinks a lot and excuse mi english so.
GBWIN

GBWIN,
Just Ckick on the link below and I think that most of your questions will be answered.
https://www.wincustomize.com/browser/msgboard.asp?BID=WC&id=231380
http://martin.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=1886
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I've created some bootskins with Paint Shop Pro by editing the default Boot bmp. I've read somewhere that only 16 colors are available and must be in 4 bit. I can't see where or how I can change my bmp to work. They display a fuzzy orangy and black bmp on boot-up. How can I change the color thing to work properly?

Colours (menu) - Reduce Colours - 16 Colours 4 Bit thgen save as normal .BMP file

Hmmm, I hate to re-open the "BootSkin stops a computer hibernating properly" issue as it got a bit unpleasant there, but...Recently, this laptop has been failing to hibernate properly, and having read this thread it probably coincides with installing Bootskin. I'm just about to turn off BootSkin, re-boot and then try hibernating, and if it works then I would have to conclude that there IS an issue...regardless of how unexpected and unpredicatable that might be...I'll get back to this thread in about 10 mins after the test...

Yep...he's right! BootSkin kills XP on this laptop when it tries to hibernate, and I think I know why too.

Stumpy said it works by pointing a variable somewhere else to load the boot graphics...well, when hibernating, XP displays a similar graphic to the boot one (same sort of scrolling progress bar) and when I have BootSkin loaded, this "hibernating now" graphic isn't displayed, and the machine locks without ever shutting down.

I think that XP is looking for the hibernating logo in the wrong place because the variable has been changed, and hence it hangs/loops/locks.

It may only happen in certain other conditions, but for now, until it's "fixed" I'll have to do without it as hibernating is more useful...

Wow...just noticed how close I was to the 10 minutes I estimated for the test !

Ah ha! Seems this is fixed in the later version of BootSkin - thanks to the BootSkin news group and Ian Hanschen's message there:

"Could you please try downloading the build from
http://storage.stardock.com/files/bootskin_free.exe and see if you can
reproduce the issue? We fixed an error shortly after 1.0 release that was
causing BootSkin to interfere with the hibernation screen, need to check if
it's the same.
Thanks!
-Ian"

This seems to have fixed it for me, so I'm a happy BootSkinner again now

...having posted the above, I went to hibernate and the problem is back Might be related to the particular book skin (my own!) but it's certainly not 100% solved

When I click on the first link at the top, I get a page that says "Page Not Found" Is there another link??

havent a clue.... hope to learn more as I go...

When I use Bootscreens my computer gets really slow and if I'm really lucky I have to reinstall the OS

Flowerkiller ...don't confuse other Bootscreen 'replacement' proggies  with the Stardock version.  They work differently and their potential for 'disaster' is quite different....

this is why i avoid bootskins

sput i think you're on to something there.. the hibernation image is different from the login image and it is probobly being lumped over like the other one - to something that doesn't exist. i'd like to see if anyone else would swap out their hibernating computer's boot skins just to see what happens. i won't try it on mine, i don't want to touch the things

hi i need some help installing bootskins. i have windows xp.
i just downloaded bootskin from bootskin.com and applied a bootskin i downloaded from this site (tribal blue by apocalypse).
now my computer wouldnt start up!!!!!! i had to restart using last known good configuration (with the xp boot) and i cant seem to change bootskins anymore, the bootskin program keeps reverting to default xp boot. please help.