A little bootskin help

Wednesday, October 6, 2004 by Hespyr | Discussion: Stardock Software

I have DL'd a few different bootscreens many times in as many ways as I can think of yet every time they only turn up 2 image files and .ini file.. Rename will not work either.. any ideas?
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Koasati
Reply #1 Wednesday, October 6, 2004 12:24 PM
That's all there is to a BootSkin...... one or two images, and an ini file. When you say rename doesn't work, what are you remaning? If you simply move, extract, or copy,  those files to a folder in the BootSkin directory, it should work. 

Hespyr
Reply #2 Wednesday, October 6, 2004 1:40 PM
The boot skin directory? I cannot find on in my explorer .. sorry I am not a comp genius I have bootskin the prog dl'd and installed. As far as the remaning some posts said to rename the .zip to .bootskin

Fuzzy Logic
Reply #3 Wednesday, October 6, 2004 2:23 PM
Yes, if you re-name the .zip to .bootskin, then double-click the .bootskin file. it should self install.

DJRedWater
Reply #4 Friday, October 15, 2004 1:14 AM
yea i seem to have the same problem. You can change it to a bootskin file by opening the configuration settings in notepad, then clicking "save as" and save it as *.bootskin (replacing the * with its original name) with type as "all files". But yet again another problem arises - it says an error opening the file has occured: "Bootskin:error: There was an error importing the skin file. Possible causes are a corrupt skin file or a read-only skin directory."

Any help with this??

Koasati
Reply #5 Friday, October 15, 2004 1:31 AM
You can change it to a bootskin file by opening the configuration settings in notepad, then clicking "save as" and save it as

Not like that...... right-click the file and select rename.....


DJRedWater
Reply #6 Friday, October 15, 2004 1:37 AM
lol forget what i said before, i understand what you need to do now but when i change it to a .bootskin file it doesnt work!!

DannyKII
Reply #7 Friday, October 15, 2004 10:06 AM
perhaps just extract the .zip? may be it CONTAINS the .bootskin file (would be crazy but possible)

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