Bootskin file formats?

Thursday, October 28, 2004 by Neil Wolf | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

Hi,

When I first installed bootskin, and used the bootscreen that came with it, I noticed that the skins are in single bootskin files.

But, when I download them, they come as several files that bootskin doesnt recognise.

What do I do to use these with Bootscreen?

Thanks.
5 Reply 1 Referrals
GreenReaper
Reply #1 Friday, October 29, 2004 12:54 PM
Umm, perhaps they've been downloaded as .zip than .bootskin? Perhaps you should save them to disk as files of type .bootskin and then run them? Alternatively extract them to a subdirectory of the main BootSkin directory.
Neil Wolf
Reply #2 Saturday, October 30, 2004 1:26 AM
Then I download them and unzip them, they are 2 picture files.

One is the main image, the other is the progress bar.

Then there is a file "bootskin" config file.

But the program only recognises a single bootscreen file.

These are bootscreen files downloaded from this site.

I feel like i am missing something simple.

Any suggestions?
Koasati
Reply #3 Saturday, October 30, 2004 2:14 AM
It's a problem that SP2 seems to be causing. The files are being renamed when downloaded.

Step 1. File extension must not be hidden. If you're unsure what that means, open Control Panel > View tab > "Hide extensions for known file types" should be un-checked.

Step 2. Right-click the file and select Rename. Change the zip part of the name to bootskin. Example skin1.zip = skin1.bootskin
If you get a warning about changing the extention, click OK

Step 3. Double-click the renamed file.

From what others have said, after a while, WIndows will stop renaming the files when you download them.

Koasati
Reply #4 Saturday, October 30, 2004 1:02 PM
Correction to above comment.... I left out an important piece of info...

Step 1. File extension must not be hidden. If you're unsure what that means, open Control Panel > Folder Options > View tab > "Hide extensions for known file types" should be un-checked.

Neil Wolf
Reply #5 Saturday, October 30, 2004 4:28 PM
Thanks.

I got it done.

Apart from the file renaming, I think I just had them in the wrong folder.

Oops.

Thanks again.

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