About Vista
Published on January 19, 2007 By Skinned Alive In Skinning
I'm sorry in advance for this question, but I've been wondering about this for a long time. So if I sound ignorant, please forgive me. The question's probably already been asked before.
Does anyone know, which probably all of SD/WC's Admins, Moderators and other affiliates do, if the new Vista OS will have the same 4bit coloring on Booting as XP does?
Thank You for any responses and/or answers.

Comments
on Jan 22, 2007
It's been 3 days with no response.
Either it's a very dumb question or nobody really does know!
on Jan 22, 2007
Thats a good question, and I'm not sure if any regulars have asked about this before.  To be honest, I dont imagine it would have the same limitation, but its also running before the video drivers load (still), so the problem could still exist.
on Jan 22, 2007
Thank You for the response DJ. I really appreciate it. I was thinking there for a moment that I had created a new style of "Dumb" jokes. Along with "Blonde" jokes, we now also have "Skinned Alive" jokes!

Skinned Alive walks into a party store and asks the cashier if he has a hanger or something to unlock his car because he's locked his keys in the car. The cashier nods and hands him a hanger. Skinned Alive thanks the cashier and goes outside to set to work. A little while later the cashier decides to check on Skinned Alive and sees him still working at it, , all the while his brother's in the car saying "a little to the left...no, a little to the right..."

I was just wondering 'cause I think, I'm not for sure, but I believe that Operating Systems like 95/98 and ME, allow a Boot Screen of 400X320 resolution instead of 640X480 like XP, but a major advantage of 256 colors instead of just 16 like XP.
So I figured if they could do that with a FAT/FAT32 OS', surely they could do it for NTFS. Therefore, it might be possible for more colors on Vista.
on Jan 22, 2007
Vista has had a 1024x768 full color bootscreen since Beta 2. Just enable NoGUIBoot in MSConfig. The image is in winload.exe afaik.
on Jan 22, 2007
Are you KIDDING ME PB!
.exe file eh?
Any way of changing the screen that you know as of yet?
on Jan 23, 2007
Yep. You're right. I looked at ThemeXP.org's Website and they have Vista Boot Screen files that you can download. The preview pics are outstanding! They're just like wallpapers, only for booting!