Herrro
I fond this Awesome Tool to change Your Windows 8 Boot Screen!
Windows 8 Boot Logo Changer:
http://www.softpedia...hot-244293.html
Posted 06 March 2014 - 12:39 AM
Herrro
I fond this Awesome Tool to change Your Windows 8 Boot Screen!
Windows 8 Boot Logo Changer:
http://www.softpedia...hot-244293.html
Posted 08 March 2014 - 07:49 PM
Very cool.
Posted 24 June 2014 - 01:59 PM
Does this also work with Windows 8.1 (running on a Surface Pro 2)?
Posted 24 June 2014 - 08:45 PM
My first inkling would be that that only replaces the stock boot logo (the blue window) that Windows 8.x uses when booting in Legacy mode. When the OS is booted in UEFI mode, it will use the image in the BGRT. I have written about that here:
http://www.msfn.org/...ows-8-and-bgrt/
I haven't the time to test this app to see if that is the case. I will look into it later.
Posted 24 June 2014 - 10:10 PM
Thanks. A BGRT app would be a nice vanity.
Posted 25 June 2014 - 04:28 PM
Posted 25 June 2014 - 09:46 PM
Wow excellent research. Starscream thanks you Even if this means the Surface Pro 2 is dead in the water vis a vis the boot logo.
Posted 07 September 2014 - 08:10 PM
One certainly can :I can't change to Legacy boot because you can't boot GPT in Legacy on this hardware (or any?), so this software does not help those who have existing UEFI/GPT installation [...]
I've managed to boot Windows under BIOS + GPT setup with a small virtual MBR disk image.
Posted 08 September 2014 - 06:09 PM
I added the "or any" comment in there because during my initial testing of Windows 7 on GPT disk, I was able to boot in either legacy or UEFI boot. I considered those cases to be a bug and did not record the particulars of which boards or BIOS versions I was using.
I'm not sure how that thread relates to this one. In Windows 8, whatever it is exactly that creates the drawing animation will look for a specific second of the ACPI tables IF the OS is being booted in UEFI mode. If it is being booted in BIOS/Legacy mode, it does not look at this location. It doesn't matter whether the disk is GPT... or even if there is no HDD connected to the system. It has this behaviour when booting via DVD, HDD or LAN. As for how it determines which mode it is in, I can't say specifically.
Posted 08 September 2014 - 07:15 PM
That's very very strange... I wonder how that worked..? Because as you can verify for yourself by searching, my thread here is the first one discussing any success of Windows 7 on GPT. I wonder how it worked...Tripredacus, on 08 Sept 2014 - 11:39 PM, said:
I added the "or any" comment in there because during my initial testing of Windows 7 on GPT disk, I was able to boot in either legacy or UEFI boot. I considered those cases to be a bug and did not record the particulars of which boards or BIOS versions I was using.
It's very easy to determine which mode the OS booted from, everything from boot loader right down to the entry points are different, residing in different files. It's a very different environment, very easy to tell one from another.Tripredacus, on 08 Sept 2014 - 11:39 PM, said:
I'm not sure how that thread relates to this one. In Windows 8, whatever it is exactly that creates the drawing animation will look for a specific second of the ACPI tables IF the OS is being booted in UEFI mode. If it is being booted in BIOS/Legacy mode, it does not look at this location. It doesn't matter whether the disk is GPT... or even if there is no HDD connected to the system. It has this behaviour when booting via DVD, HDD or LAN. As for how it determines which mode it is in, I can't say specifically.
Posted 08 September 2014 - 09:22 PM
You know what would be cool...VHD booting or booting any other way, Windows 7 from a Surface Pro device.
Let's hope Windows 9 cures the 8.x'ers Windows 7 envy.
Posted 09 September 2014 - 01:47 PM
That's very very strange... I wonder how that worked..? Because as you can verify for yourself by searching, my thread here is the first one discussing any success of Windows 7 on GPT. I wonder how it worked...
It's very easy to determine which mode the OS booted from, everything from boot loader right down to the entry points are different, residing in different files. It's a very different environment, very easy to tell one from another.
I think those early systems were not so "clear" as to what they were doing. For example, changing an option to enable UEFI boot and disable Legacy, but (maybe) Legacy wasn't really/fully disabled? There was also some manufacturers that were using emulation for GPT boot support on boards with a BIOS (not a UEFI). One example is MSI originally was not on schedule and instead released some feature called 2.2TB Infinity.
To clarify my "both modes" comment. I was able to have an MBR disk boot in Legacy and UEFI modes, but of course a GPT disk was not detected as being bootable by the BIOS if UEFI was disabled.
I figured there was a way to determine UEFI boot-mode, I never looked too far into it (or more exactly, didn't know where to look) so it was like some magic tool to detect the boot mode.
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