How To Change Windows XP Boot Screen Using TuneUp Utilities

So you are tired of the boring old windows logo and the 3 boxes scrolling left to right under it? Want to see something different while windows boots up? It time to change the boot screen!

Using Tuneup Utilities(availabe at download.com) is the easiest method to change the boot screen and safe too (coz it adds an extra entry in Boot loader for the new boot screen and keeps the default entry too).

So here we go through the step by step procedure:

1.) Open Tuneup Utilities 2006:

2.) Click on Tuneup Styler2:

3.) It'll open a new windows, where u can change many things, like Icons, Logind screen, Visual Styles and boot screen.

Click on "Change the windows XP boot screen, and create or download new boot screens".

4.) It'll open a new window, where u can add existing boot screens if u hv stored on ur computer or u can d/l from net:

5.) Or u can create new boot screens:

6.) To create new ones using stored images on ur comp, click on "Search Local Drives" and give the path for the image.

7.) It'll show the preview of the boot screen, U can select the Alignment of the image. It'll also suggest u the background color, simply accept the suggestion:

8.) U can also select the Progress Bar Position:

9.) At last click on "Save Boot Screen" button:

10.) And give the name to ur boot screen:

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11.) U can see the preview of the boot screen by clicking on "Show Large Preview" or simply click on the image in Preview pane:

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12.) And finally U'll hv ur new boot screen:

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13.) To set it as ur Boot screen click on "Install Boot Screen" button:

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Thats the whole procedure to change the Boot screen using this great s/w!

PS: The screenshots after step 11 were not apppearing in the post so I had to give them as links.