Problems with my Bootskins and Logon Sreens
Friday, February 25, 2005 by Pebbles1964 | Discussion: Stardock Software
Hi,
I'm Pebbles1964, brand new to Stardock, and I am running into a few problems for which I am looking for some help...
As for Bootskins: I have managed to download them, but have to change the extension, as directed to get them to show up in the Bootskins menu. However, once I choose which bootskin I want, once it loads upon computer startup, the picture will show, but then the computer shuts off and restarts, and I have to go to "Last good configuration to continue. It doesn't matter hich Bootscreen I use, the same thing happens. The error message I get is that there was a problem with Windows starting up. Any advice?
Next, I can get the logon screens to work and show, but regardless of which boxes I check or uncheck in the options menu, I can't get the randomization to work. Again, any advice?
I'm Pebbles1964, brand new to Stardock, and I am running into a few problems for which I am looking for some help...
As for Bootskins: I have managed to download them, but have to change the extension, as directed to get them to show up in the Bootskins menu. However, once I choose which bootskin I want, once it loads upon computer startup, the picture will show, but then the computer shuts off and restarts, and I have to go to "Last good configuration to continue. It doesn't matter hich Bootscreen I use, the same thing happens. The error message I get is that there was a problem with Windows starting up. Any advice?
Next, I can get the logon screens to work and show, but regardless of which boxes I check or uncheck in the options menu, I can't get the randomization to work. Again, any advice?
Cavan1
Reply #2 Friday, February 25, 2005 5:10 PM
Reply #2 Friday, February 25, 2005 5:10 PM
Have you added logons to random logons list, you click randomize, select in available list, click arrow to move to random list.
z3r0k0ol
Reply #3 Friday, February 25, 2005 5:32 PM
Reply #3 Friday, February 25, 2005 5:32 PM
tengo problemas con el bootskin, al encender la computadora despues de instalarlo, aparece el skin personalizado pero nunca arranca windows, tuve que desinstalar el bootskin, para que el windows funcionara, necesito saber si hay alguna manera de configurar el programa para que esto no suceda, utilizo windows xp prof..
Pebbles1964
Reply #4 Friday, February 25, 2005 6:56 PM
Reply #4 Friday, February 25, 2005 6:56 PM
As for the Bootskin downloads, 1.02 and 1.03 went one step beyond...they didn't shut off my computer, but didn't go to next screen either...just hung in limbo.
As for Logons, I did move the desired screens to the random box and checked the randomization option, but it changed nothing.
As for Logons, I did move the desired screens to the random box and checked the randomization option, but it changed nothing.
Cavan1
Reply #5 Saturday, February 26, 2005 12:15 AM
Reply #5 Saturday, February 26, 2005 12:15 AM
I played with it and could not get random even with all logons in randomize list, when check logonstudio.ini
it does change from 0 to 1 when select randomize. I never use randomize, maybe another XP SP2 problem.
it does change from 0 to 1 when select randomize. I never use randomize, maybe another XP SP2 problem.
Bichur
Reply #6 Saturday, February 26, 2005 11:37 AM
Reply #6 Saturday, February 26, 2005 11:37 AM
I noticed 2 things on randomization. If I had too many selected to randomize, sometimes it got sulky. If, once I selected the ones to randomize, I clicked 'apply' it only used the last one selected, but if I clicked 'ok' instead it worked (but sometimes not until i used a cleanup program like ACE, CCleaner, or Object Sweeper).
Mine is randomizing now. v1.0.064.
Mine is randomizing now. v1.0.064.
Cavan1
Reply #7 Saturday, February 26, 2005 2:39 PM
Reply #7 Saturday, February 26, 2005 2:39 PM
Got it working,
refers to one of logons in randomize list being selected.
| but if I clicked 'ok' instead it worked |
refers to one of logons in randomize list being selected.
Koasati
Reply #9 Saturday, February 26, 2005 4:28 PM
Reply #9 Saturday, February 26, 2005 4:28 PM
Pebbles... in the future it would probably be best to keep all related questions in a single thread, instead of creating multiple threads. Less confusing for everyone. 
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Reply #1 Friday, February 25, 2005 3:56 PM
Bootskin will not work on all computers due to differences in their BIOS coding. Uninstall the version you have there now and try to download and install one of the alternative versions you can find here (scroll down)https://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/. If none of these versions work, then you are one of the unlucky ones and will not be able to run Bootskin.