Engineered

Life is in equilibrium these days. No reaction, and apparently no change in state. I reach the bed after a 1 O' clock at night after some hours of sleepless and of course practically useless internet surfing. The DAY starts at 8 O' clock morning and it's study time! Actually there is no place called hell. It's more of a common life situation, ..ahem.. like preparing for the university exams in the hot summer with no connectivity and no appreciable chances for entertainment.

Hey and did you show your mummy the whole new muMmy 3 poster? Grr.. the tomb of the dragon lord(that's how it is named). The red colour looks evil!!. I am scared!. And guess who really is the Dragon Lord. It's none other than Jet Li!!. Umm and Mariah Carey really have the most beautiful legs! And that's some updates coming to my mind. Currently listening to random misc of Avril lavigne and Linkin park, it feels like saying "Dear life , congrats; you suck as well".

Well some word about the title for this post: Engineered is originally an awesome flash cartoon I happened to enjoy. More of an epic stuff. And that is not all, Bobby!. It helped me a lot more. Take a quick rewind in your time machine. It's me sitting at the desk for the college fine arts story competition. And the boring topic arrived - "Saying all the best". Ahh! again..hell. But it was a simple work. The only thing I did is just writing down the whole script of the flash cartoon I said just now and with some added situations to say some unnecessary 'Best of luck's. And the result - Ooh! A rocking first prize in English story writing. I don't remember the author of the original cartoon. Anyways thanks maan!

This is an old trick. But lemme see how many of you can get it done. Make a new folder in your XP desktop and name it CON or con. If you can get it done tell me and have my B' day's remaining candies(Lots of ants here!).

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Bloody Desk

And I just made this wallpaper(or just a pic..as you like!) today. It features my new character which is currently called ET(copyright issues?) and another ET. It seems little violent and bloody but it fits well on the desktop i think. I uploaded this on Deviant art just one hour ago. So no time for a comment. Go on have some fresh judgement.


click for full view and download

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In peace, Yo!

Last episode we were discussing about the bootscreen-change thing. This time let's go dump the Windows logon screen! Just blogging between my study time. So no elaborations. Briefly...

Download the following file Thinkin' logon transform.zip
Now you know what - unzip it.
In the folder double click on the file Thinkin' logon
Wow! and logoff to see the change.
If you want to switch to the XP default logon screen double click on Reset Defaults in the same folder.

And that's all for now. I can get you pretty logon screens later.
Let me go study some smelly electrical engineering.

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Lighter Moments

Ooh! It was really hard time with the second series exams at college. I was screwed up in the fight to improve from the last series exam. I was rude on myself , compelling me to study, study and study! The brain was at it's best . Thanks brain, for letting yourself super-saturated with all the crap theory stuff. Anyways the hell is finally over. Now everyone is awaiting the finale showdown - the university exams which is said to be conducted starting from the freaking 21st of this month. There is a hope that the exam may be postpont to June...dunno.

During the study time my brain often gets pretty active that it comes up with a lot of creative ideas. And this time it just clicked when I went through some stuff about changing the Windows XP bootscreen on the internet. Yeah! changing that ugly reminder thing with blue loading bar which tells us on booting that "Hey man you are using the all new Windows XP and wow! it's copyrighted by Microsoft!". Huh! all of us know we are using XP and why these logo things everywhere. So go CUSTOMIZE it duudez.

Changing XP bootscreen is an easy task once you come to know aboout it. We have bunch of softwares as shareware and freeware for making any of our tasks easier and automated. And about bootscreen it is true as well. There is the popular Bootscreen software by Stardock, which is a shareware. They claim it changes XP bootscreen to watever you like without patching the operating system. But please, don't tell me. I will tell you why - I have seen how it actually works. It may work good for XP sp1 but NAH! for XP sp2! I tried installing three different versions of the software and finally ended up patching the windows installation. The bootscreen shows as you wish but there will be no further going. So naturally i kicked away Bootscreen. The next way is about hacking the Windows XP kernel file. You can do it but not exactly the way you wish. The resolution, colours and the loading bar thing get messed up when you view it as bootscreen. You can correct it with some hex editor and burning head on some hexadecimal values over the kernel file - not originally meant for people-looking-for-the-easy-way like me ;)

So let me tell you one Really simple way to change XP bootscreen.. ahmm.. at the cost of the animated blue loading bar (that's not so important na?)

Step 1:
Get (or make you little artist!) one 640x480 bitmap image(*.bmp) which is having 16-colours palette(not 16-bit). Name it boot which is actually boot.bmp in full and copy it to the WINDOWS folder(probably C:\WINDOWS\).

Step 2:
Now go right click on My Computer and take properties. Select the advanced tab. Now click the Settings button under Startup and Recovery title. In the new dialogue box click the Edit button. A notepad file will open. Now get the cursor to the last letter in the file. Give a space and type in the following:

/bootlogo /noguiboot

For example:
.../fastboot /noexecute /bootlogo /noguiboot

Step 3:
Actually there is no step 3!! Yeah! you are done. Now restart to view your own bootscreen. If something is wrong, YOU did something wrong .Revise the above steps in such a case.

Little more about the boot.bmp
Be sure your picture meets the above specifications. Some people may get confused with 16 colours. You can get it done with Photoshop or GIMP or any capable pic editor. Select Image->Mode-> and then select indexed colour from palettes. You can generate a custom palette of 16 colours from there. Feel free to use the Thinkin' Co. bootscreen:
I will be back soon with the Thinkin' Co. logon screen!!
The Thinkin' Co. bootscreen click for full view

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