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Win 95 animated start-up logo installation instructions
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! *.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.
suggestion a. go to Explorer
choose View menu, then select Options...
in the dialog, enable "Show all files"
suggestion b. use a DOS window, in which most *.sys files
can be viewed normally
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0. Extract the new .SYS file to a temporary directory.
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1. Move (backup) original "start-up" logo, "LOGO.SYS" from the
root 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.)
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2. Use DOS window or Explorer to copy new logo file to the
root directory, renaming the new copy to "LOGO.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
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3. Restart your computer and you're done!
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Note:
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* 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 step 1. 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. If you want to create an animated logo,
see my instruction page on the internet at
http://www.nucleus.com/~kmcmurdo/win95logo.html
More animated Logo's can be found on the sample page linked to
the instruction page above.
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Thanks to Rob Chen whose instructions for installing Windows 95
logo files I have blatantly plagiarised.
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* If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail me.
Karl McMurdo kmcmurdo@nucleus.com
73230,2600 (compuserve)
XrX Computer Applications xrx@nucleus.com