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Geek Culture / Windows XP Custom Branded

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Silent Thunder
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Posted: 9th Sep 2006 09:18 Edited at: 9th Sep 2006 09:20
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well, i was playing around with windows xp's os files and look what i came up with.

A custom branding Job.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 9th Sep 2006 10:10
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what the heck file type is it?

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 9th Sep 2006 14:31
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I thought that picture was saved in the BIOS...


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Dazzag
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Posted: 9th Sep 2006 14:53
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Nah, most computers I've bought have the makers advertising all over the place with lots of rubbish installed, and this is one of the things they normally do. Personally because of this, rubbish partitioning, and because I like to know exactly what is on the machine, I normally format and re-install from scratch. And that picture definitely goes away.

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IanG
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Posted: 9th Sep 2006 19:24
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Quote: "I thought that picture was saved in the BIOS..."

nope has nothing to do with the bios, it is actually a windows registry entry - like everything else is in windows


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Silent Thunder
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Posted: 9th Sep 2006 19:49
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i found this little trick out with the help of a book i have called "Hacking Windows XP".

It's actually quites simple to change this if any of you want to know.

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Sid Sinister
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Yea I'd like to know actually. Enlighten us oh wise one .
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Silent Thunder
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Posted: 10th Sep 2006 00:27 Edited at: 10th Sep 2006 05:26
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lol, like i said, it's quite simple, all you have to do is


1. Get a 180 x 115 .bmp image
2. navigate to WINDOWS/System32
3. Find the files OEMLOGO.bmp and oeminfo.ini
4. Backup the files
5. Replace them with your own
6. (to change the displayed text, just open up the oeminfo.ini, from there it's pretty straight forward).

that's pretty much it, just make sure to have your new files the exact name of the old ones, if you have any questions, simply post your problem and i will try to help you, have fun branding.

by the way, after you do it, post a screen shot, i wanna see how they turned out.

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Jeku
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Posted: 10th Sep 2006 00:55
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Dude, that is the oldest trick in the book. We were doing that back in the Win '95 days


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Silent Thunder
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Posted: 10th Sep 2006 03:11 Edited at: 10th Sep 2006 05:25
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sigh, sorry, nevermind, delete this thread then, i was just excited because i just found out how to do it, sorry.

forget the previous post.

edit: out of courtesy for Sid Sinister I will post the directions back here long enough for him to read them, than you can delete this if you wish.

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Toby Quan
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Posted: 10th Sep 2006 18:12
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There is absolutely no need to delete this post, or to remove the instructions. This is good information for many people. Just because someone else did it on Windows 95 doesn't mean that this isn't good information. I bet that TONS of people on this board will find that to be a really neat trick.
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Silent Thunder
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Posted: 11th Sep 2006 04:26 Edited at: 11th Sep 2006 06:57
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really, are you sure? Ok, ill leave the directions up.

wow, maybe you were right, 205 views.

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