BootSkin Issues
Monday, April 7, 2008 by AnthonyK68 | Discussion: Object Desktop
I'm sorry if this is a repeat post but I did search for "bootskin" and found nothing at all.
Anyway, here's the problem I am having. I just recently installed Impulse. Seems you Object Destop wants to use it now instead of stardock central. So I go to "my desktop" section and it tells me that bootskin is not installed. (I know it is, but I figure this is an update)
I install the program and it has none of my old bootskins. I uninstall it, run the old one I had installed, (since it was still there) and my skins are there. This is where the trouble comes in. I decide I'll uninstall it, and install the one that Impulse is saying I need. So I tell it to go to the default windows bootskin, uninstall it, etc. Done and done. I reboot, just to make sure things went ok and it is still showing a non default bootskin. In fact, it's one I deleted ages ago because I didn't like it all that much.
So I do all sorts of things to fix that, including reinstalling and uninstalling both versions of bootskin. No help. I search the internet a little, they i fond that you can supposedly delete the file: [Windows_root]\System32\Ntoskrnl.exe and let the windows recovery system fix it with the original.
So I do that and still the same bootscreen. Please help, because of this, non of the new bootscreens I use are working properly. Non of them have the animated bar anymore. Any ideas how I can restore the original one?
UPDATE: I even copied the original ntoskrnl.exe file from the windows xp install disk and it still has this messed up windows bootscreen. HELP!
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Reply #1 Monday, April 7, 2008 8:52 PM
I believe that would be the wrong file
1) don't install bootskin with both SDC and Impulse (should have read more posts on Impulse - they're pulling in info from different sources)
2) boot into safe mode
3) set bootskin to use the default boot before uninstalling
4) test back in normal mode
5) move the skins you want to keep
6) uninstall
If that doesn't work:
boot into safe mode and delete the vidstub.sys file out of the:
c:\windows\system32\drivers