Styling Windows Vista (Part 1): Give Your OS a Facelift with a New Boot Screen
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May 12th, 2010 written by Christoph in Styling
Microsoft introduced an entirely new design with Windows Vista—to refresh the aging look of Windows XP. Now, the TuneUp Blog team will show you how to transform the entire user interface of the former operating system to suit your taste. The step-by-step guides will go beyond replacing the wallpaper or changing some colors and breathe new life into your PC.
In the first part of our styling series, we’ll explain how to change the simple Vista boot screen to something with a bit more personality.
How do I change the boot screen?
Usually, there is a lot of work involved when manually changing the boot screen; replacing a critical boot file, for example, can be a tedious process. Don’t take any risks—the easiest way to alter the boot screen is to use TuneUp Styler. (Download a 15-day trial of TuneUp Utilities to try out this function).
- Install TuneUp Utilities, fire up the software, and click on “Boot screen” in the “Customize Windows” category. You will see the standard Windows Vista boot screen. To make your own boot screen from an image (GIF, PNG, JPG, BMP, etc.) on your PC, click “Create new”, and select a photo of your choice. To select one of our favorite boot screens (see below), click on “Load boot screen from a file”.
- If you downloaded the White Lily boot screen, go to your download folder, and double-click “Whitelily.tbs”. Note: If your boot screen is from another source, you might need to extract it first by using a program such as WinRAR.
- To see preview your boot screen’s new look, go to “Show large preview”.
- Hit “Apply” to select the new boot screen. Then, restart your computer, and the new image should appear as the boot screen.
Our favorites: the top five boot screens
We have found some great boot screens! Here is a list of our personal favorites.
Most of these designs are available on TuneUp’s boot screen Web site, which boasts a nice collection of boot screens.
In the next part of our series around styling Windows Vista, we’ll show you how to customize the entire user interface with a new visual style!
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May 15, 2010 at 11:45 am
wow..its very nice and very helpful
Thanks for sharing this
June 20, 2010 at 6:36 pm
There is no BootScreen changer option available in Tuneup Utils 2010, Windows 7 x64.
June 20, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Yep, unfortunately changing the boot screen in Windows 7 is not possible right no (hopefully not forever). So far, only XP and Vista users are able to do so!
Best and have a nice sunday,
Sandro
August 8, 2010 at 7:54 am
How do you make them animated? There should be some kind of way.. If not what can you make Animated?
August 8, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Sorry Tim, there’s no way to animate boot screens in Vista. During boot, Windows only loads basic graphic functions (that are just enough for an animated loading bar). The only thing you could animate is your desktop background: If you’ve got Vista Ultimate, go get “DreamScene” (that’s the animated wallpaper feature) via Windows Update – under the Ultimate Extras. Also check this out, if you don’t have Ultimate http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/skins/#/d2v3rp5
Enjoy.