Customize your boot screen

Do the following to have your personnel boot screen.

>>open my computer and
>>in tools drop down list click folder options
>>in view tab check out show hidden files radio button and and uncheck the hide protected operating system files(Recommended)
>>click apply ,OK.
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>>now open the drive in which OS(xp) installed then you'll find boot.inf open it
>>the following code appears,
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[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
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>>what all you need is to add this at the end "/noguiboot/bootlogo" so it becomes
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[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect/noguiboot/bootlogo
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>>save boot.inf

>>now create a bmp picture with settings as shown in screen shots.

>>and save it with the name "boot"

>>copy it and paste it in the c:\windows , folder if already there is a file it prompts for replacement, replace it.

>>restart your system.

and you'll make the difference.

Note: 1.This requires utmost care ,do it perfectly and for convenience back up boot.inf and i found that this worked for square screens,i tried for widescreen on my friend's PC but it did'nt worked.
2.The screen shots are in reverse order so view it from bottom to top I'll edit later for convenience,as my mom is calling for dinner.