The Not-So-Diabolical Boot Logos

The McKeel Academy of Technology class of 2003 didn't really have a senior prank. However, we tried...

The original plan was to use the Diabolical Boot Flipper, which flips all the bits in your boot sector, to render all the computers unbootable. The problem was that I realized that I would have to re-flip the boot sectors to make the computers boot again. The solution was the Not-So-Diabolical Boot Logo.

Ironically, I did have to remove the nsDBL, because Windows service pack installers will not update machines with custom kernels.

If you want to change your Windows boot logo, there are a lot of tutorials out there. Try a google search.

[top] The Images

Here are the images in various formats. If you just want to see what they looked like, choose the first two.

If you want to see exactly what it looked like, look at the 16-color images under "historical interest" and imagine the title image on top of the main image. If you want to include these files in your ntoskrnl.exe, use the last two, which have all of the entries in their color tables set to black.

For viewing:

• The Windows XP boot logo in full color
• The Windows 2000 boot logo (PNG)

For historical interest:

• The Windows 2000 boot logo (BMP)
• Original boot logo images (viewable)
  • Windows XP boot logo main (BMP resource 1) (16 colors)
  • "Class of 2003" title image (BMP resource 10)(16 colors)
• Original boot logo images (all-black palette, suitable for inclusion in ntoskrnl.exe
  • BMP Resource ID 1
  • BMP Resource 10
  • Python script to swap palettes

(Resource 1 is the generic Windows XP boot logo. The part that normally says "Home Edition" or "Professional" is in resource 10 and is displayed on top of the image in resource 1 just below the word "Windows.")