Overview on Windows Logos

  1. What standby and shutdown screens are.
    1. If you are using Windows as your OS, when you shut down the computer, you always see those boring old screens that say things like, "Please wait while your computer shuts down," and "It is now safe to turn off your computer." Well, what I have here is something to replace it with. But, before you go off downloading, please still read on to learn how to implement it on to your system.
  2. Locating the original screens.
    1. The reason why you must locate the screens is because once you download these, you will write over them. You might not want to do that if you want to save them as back-up or if some fellow parentals are not happy with the change.
    2. First, use Windows Explorer to go to the directory C:\Windows. You should find two files named logos.sys and logow.sys. If you don't, go to the menu bar on top of the Explorer. Go to View > Options. On the View tab, you will see two options: Show all files and Hide files of these types. By default, the hide option is selected. Select the first one. Click OK
    3. Once you locate these two items, rename their extension to .bak. That is, rename logos.sys to logos.bak and logow.sys to logow.bak. If you ever want to revert back to these two screens, rename the extensions back to .sys.
  3. Downloading the files.
    1. Here comes the easy part. Just right-click the thumbnails and choose SAVE TARGET/DOWNLOAD AS, depending on your browser, and save it on your hard drive. If you have a download manager, you could probably just click the thumbnails, but I highly advise that you right-click instead of just clicking, because it may not download if you do so.
    2. Do not download two from the same category. I mean, you can, but you can only choose one at a time from each category to use on your computer.
    3. If you have trouble reading the text on the thumbnails, no fear, just do a mouseover. The text will appear both on the bottom of the screen and as a screen tip, or at least, it should. If it doesn't, well, you probably need to download the latest version of Internet Explorer or whatever browser you're using.
  4. Unzipping the files.
    1. You will need Winzip to unzip these files. You will need to unzip them to the directory C:\Windows. Or if you already have unzipped them, move these files to that directory, if you have already done step II.
  5. The quality.
    1. Now, when you shut down your computer and you see the new, nice screens, you might think the quality is a little bit not quite what you were expecting. Why? It's because in order for you to implement them, they have to be in 256 color and smaller than what the screen actually is. It looks just a little pixelated, but otherwise, trust me, it's fine. The quality is the best I can do, or else I would be making better ones, wouldn't I?
  6. Still confused?
    1. If you're still in the dark about something and you're not sure what to do, go ahead, contact us with your questions or problems. We would love to help you out.