Aqua-Soft ForumsWho knows which .exe or which .dll contains the splash screen for office word.
Where Is Office Word's Splash Screen?
i wondered the same, please if someone knows, please let us know. Does anyone have the original splash screens?
I too have been looking for where all of the "Office 10" splashes are so obviously this is something we need to find.
i just went thru i believe every exe and dll in office 11 and couldnt find a trace of it
so i musta missed somethin 
It is compiled in some .exe or .dll.
Better to search it by ResHacker or something like that.
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Originally posted by jed717ph@Jan 28 2003, 11:59 AMIt is compiled in some .exe or .dll.
Better to search it by ResHacker or something like that.
thats what i did, lol
Same here reshacked every dll. no sign.
by reshack, im not able to find it. Im gonna try with another application or something. It ought to be encoded or hidden on a windows folder.
It was difficulat to simply chane "word"'s icon, you klnow the blue "w".
It's easy enough to change the short cut, just reshack winword, and replace in programfiles AND shell32.
But eachtime you close a document window(i.e. leave the main "Office Word" window open, the nice aqua "w" on the taskbar would change back to the garish windows "w" on the taskbar.
How to get around this is enabling hidden+ system files, going to windows/installer/last one TAKING OFF READ-ONLY on the wordico file.
then reshack that. (be sure to replace the read-only attribute when you are done)
and that does it, no more traces of the "windows blue" "w".
But I STILL cant find the splash screen 
(ps, wmp9, when minimized (-->not in silver taskbar miniplayer mode), still shows "windows" media player icon. Even after hacking wmplayer.exe, and replacing in program files, system 32, and dllcache.)
But forget that, where the **** is the Word splash screen?
I think that's is in the same file that icons 
(windows\instaler), but is hiden or something like that. if someone know a program like reshack tell me and i looking for it
Bye
Ezblad
Well... I've had no luck so far.
I did find the dll that conatins the splash screen for Visio Pro ( aka Visio XP ).
It is in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Visio10\1033\VisPro.dll
Or if you have Visio standard, it's in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Visio10\1033\VisStd.dll
Since MS didn't write Visio, they just bought it, this convention of putting the splash screen in the dll doesn't appear to apply to office products.
I also found the splash screen for MS Project.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\1033\PJ9INTL.DLL
Still no luck with the others yet. <_<
OK... well I have some good news and some bad news.
The good news is... I FOUND THEM. 
The bad news... they are in raw code in the exe in multiple parts. 
You can actually see the code, not the image, in reshacker.
Winword.exe, Excel.exe and Powerpnt.exe all have the resource 998.
I made a phone call to a friend of mine at MS and I was informed that yep, that's where they are.
This change was made to the Office 2002 (XP) suite.
After I explained to him what I was trying to do, he laughed. A$$hole!
So... in closing, looks like we're SOL on this one.
Unless anyone out there has a real good deompiler/compiler.
Finally!
Don't worry it's downhill from here.
Ok 1. never mention A-S to your friend, say it's just for your own use.
2. How the hell do we save an image as, code in resource 998?
If we cant do that, can we:
a. Turn off the native splash screen (I know it is possible from the windows registry)
then.
b. Somehow insert an old method of splash screening (i.e. that of the classic bmp method from old office suites), into Office XP 2002?
This must be possible.
Thanks though man,... It looks like you spent some time.
First... I mentioned this to my friend at MS as a personal thing.
No mention of A-S was made.
Second... you can embedd images as binary code in an exe.
This prevents a user from doing what we are trying to do.
It's a bit anal, but it does make the overall exe smaller.
You can disable the splash screens on all Office products.
As for reverting... not possible. Totally different code base. <_<
I do believe there are some third party splash screen programs out there that might do this.
Not sure how good they are though.
Hmm,.. if the word splash in the .exe comes in discreet packets,.. we could compile a new splash and just insert it I guess.
But I ain't no programmmer.
Yep... I'm sure it can be done... but I don't posess that level of programming skills.
Microsoft seems to be anal about everything. Im not trying to be mean, but it seems like were re-arranging deck chairs on the titanic. We've made it this far, but who knows the programming that this task would require?
I say, we take an approach to where a app would detect splash screens, hide the real one, and display the one you wanted. Of course, there would be people who wouldnt like it because it would take up precious resources, but you coulda also have it do speical stuff, like show splash screen for programs that dont even have one!
Remember, all I have said is out of pure opinion, please do not take anything personally. I think thats its awesome that you guys got as far as you did.
Yeah,.. bastard microsoft
i's maybe an htm file, try and see in Program Files/Common Files/microsoft Shared/Office10/1033 and edit msointl.dll, it is maybe here ...
Been there... done that.
I have gone through EVERY frikin' dll and exe related to Office XP, and as stated in a previous post, asked a friend of mine who works for MS (Programmer).
The images for the splash screen are not in bitmap format or gif of jpeg.
They are in binary format in the exe.
You would have to decompile the exe and then locate the resources that make up the image.
Then replace the resources and re-compile.
Sounds easy... but it's not.
Man this sucks. <_<