How to install start-up and shutdown screens
You can use "Logoviewer" to install your start-up and shutdown screens or follow the next instructions.
Win 95 animated start-up (and shutdown) logo installation instructions
*.sys file type is usually hidden in most people's computers under Win95. Hence, you might have trouble in finding *.sys files for copying files. To see these hidden files, you can use either suggestion below.
- go to Explorer, choose View menu, then select Options... in the dialog, enable "Show all files"
- use a DOS window, in which most *.sys files can be viewed normally
- Extract the new .SYS file to a temporary directory.
- Move (backup) original "start-up" logo, "LOGO.SYS" from the root directory of your boot drive, usually C:\ to another temporary directory.
- Move (backup) original "shutdown" logos, "LOGOS.SYS" and "LOGOW.SYS" from the windows (or win95) directory of your boot drive, usually C:\ to another temporary directory.
- (If you are using a compression utility or cannot locate the logo.sys file, please see the notes below.)
- Use DOS window or Explorer to copy new logo file to the root directory, renaming the new copy to "LOGO.SYS"
- Use DOS window or Explorer to copy new logo file to the windows (or win95) directory, renaming the new copies to "LOGOS.SYS and "LOGOW.SYS"
- (If you are using a compression utility, please see the notes below.)
- Example of DOS command: copy c:\temp_dir\xrxlogo.sys c:\logo.sys
- Restart your computer and you're done!
Note:
- If you are using a compression utility on your boot drive, you must put logo.sys in the host for that drive. (For example, if drive C: is compressed and its host is the G: drive, then logo.sys should be placed in the root directory of the G: drive.)
- The default logo.sys is embedded in io.sys file. If you cannot find logo.sys in your drives, including the host drive (see above), chances are Win95 is using the logo that is embedded in io.sys as your start up logo. In this case, you don't have logo.sys to backup. Simply place the new logo.sys in the root directory of your boot (host) drive. Logo.sys in the root directory will take precedence of the one embedded in io.sys file. To get back to the original win95 logo, simply rename the logo.sys to other name.
- To restore the original win95 logo, you must save (backup) the file in the first 2 steps. Then just copy the original logo to the designated directory.
- You can create your own Win95 logo files. They must be in 320 x 400 (256 colors) bitmap format. Although the real size displayed is 640 x 400, Win95 will stretch these logo files when displaying them.
Thanks to Rob Chen whose instructions for installing Windows 95 logo files I have blatantly plagiarised.
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