Archive for March, 2008
Vista SP1 and Boot Logos
by dan on Mar.21, 2008, under Development
Now that SP1 is rolling out, you may have noticed that Vista is ignoring your hi-res customised boot logos and using its own one. Sadly, SP1 has disabled the trick we’ve been using to replace the logos, so we’re pretty much stuck with the lame default one for the moment grrrrrr. You can still replace the old 16 colour 640×480 logos, but they suck!
To summarise the situation:
- The hi-res boot logos are contained within a resource (a .wim file) within winload.exe.
- You can’t patch winload.exe directly because its digital signature is verified during boot.
- Prior to SP1 we could get round the digital signature check by adding the the logos to winload.exe’s associated MUI file – winload.exe.mui. In SP1 this no longer works
Anyone got any ideas how to get round this?
