w9xstart.c
Changes the boot screen in Windows 95, 98, and ME


Copyright 2000-2002 Damian Yerrick; all rights reserved.

This program is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute it or modify it subject to the terms and conditions
of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. To view this
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or view the COPYING file.

 Damian Yerrick \n 5500 Wabash Ave. CM 398 \n Terre Haute IN 47803 \n USA
 mailto:w9xstart@pineight.8m.com
   http://www.pineight.com/


When Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows ME starts up, it displays a
splash screen stored in a 256-color bitmap called logo.sys, stored in
the C:\ folder.  w9xstart changes c:\logo.sys to a randomly selected
graphic from a set on your hard disk.

1. Create a folder "screens" in the same folder as w9xstart.exe.

2. Drop bitmaps (.bmp or .pcx only) into this folder.  To get support
   for .png, .tif, or .jpg, install their respective Allegro addons
   and modify this file to register them with the Allegro library.


If you want to change startup screens every time you start Windows:

3. Create a shortcut to w9xstart.exe and put it in
   Start > Programs > Startup

4. Restart your computer.


To build this from source, see the full instructions in w9xstart.c.
