BootSkin rainbow...

Wednesday, May 26, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News

BootSkin is a program that lets you safely change your Windows boot screen. The way it works is that it actually installs a boot screen device driver that loads when you boot up Windows.

Version 1.05 works for most people. But over the months we've found that some drivers interfere with BootSkin and those people experience weird problems with BootSkin. For those people, we have made available previous versions of BootSkin which worked on some of those computers (but not others -- there doesn't seem to be a 100% solution so far). 

For those of you who have tried BootSkin 1.05 and ran into problems, please visit the BootSkin site and try out 1.02 or 1.03 and let us know below whether it solved your problem. If you can also tell us your hardware configuration, we can then see if there is something they have in common.

BootSkin 1.05 works on all of Stardock's internal compatibility lab machines (of which there are a LOT of machines) along with our external beta network. So the only way those people who can't get 1.05 to work is to work with us and help us find a solution. Thanks! 

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Surj
Reply #1 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 12:47 PM
oh boy

Is 1.05 the version that supports more color? Is that where the issues arise from, or is there something else?

sim ulation
Reply #2 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 5:47 PM
It works fine in my desktop pc, but it won't run on my portable pc (IBM Transnote) running windows xp sp1 Pro. Oh well ... ps: tried all versions.

8-bitBear
Reply #3 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 6:31 PM
Frogboy, I'm curious, about one week ago on Stardock Central, the bootskin program was listed (I think it was something like 1.06b?) under the 'object desktop' list. Is/was this the version that supports high color bootskins? I was going to download it but it was pulled before I could.

Surj
Reply #4 Wednesday, May 26, 2004 7:43 PM
Well its running fine on both my laptop and a PC. I'm still unsure as to whats new in this version, couldnt find a list of changes in any text or readme files.

Adam-Vester
Reply #5 Thursday, May 27, 2004 5:18 PM
when you go into hybernate it dont seam to like it my friend has same problems aswell. it sorta trys to hybernate and stays on the black screen and dont turn off.

Wildharp
Reply #6 Friday, May 28, 2004 4:27 AM
Great on my PC but no go on IBM laptop. Same OS different builds?

OpusCroakus
Reply #7 Tuesday, June 29, 2004 11:43 PM
Brad,
I've posted a few times in the newsgroup (stardock.bootskin) about exact BSOD messages and versions which did and did not work. See my post "BSOD with BootScreen Installed" from December 2003, and my reply to "Re: We need your help" from May 2004.

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