Change shutdown screen

I need help , please..

Recently i Switched to Royale Remixed Theme on my XP Media center.

Everything is working fine , But I am not capable to change the colors on the background of the Shutdown screen.

I tried using ResHacker and Replacer editing the msgina and shell32 dlls to no avail .

They al go back to the the blueish color, even when i "see" the change executed under ResHacker.

These also created a couple of Msgina files named :

msgina_original.dll located on C:WINDOWSsystem32

msgina.dll ( I think this is the ORIGINAL) located on C:WINDOWSsystem32

msgina.backup located on C:WINDOWSsystem32 (This is the BACKUP File created by the Replacer.

Also I have the file named msgina on :

msgina.dll located on C:i386

msgina.backup also located on C:i386.

Will it be any problem deleting all of the and keep only the msgina.dll located on C:WINDOWSsystem32 and C:i386 ????

And how how i can finally hack and change the background of the shutdown screen???

Thanks in advance..

#487091

TweakUI????? lol?

provided that you are talking about the shutdown screen not the welcome screen type. yea the background can be changed with tweakUI.

#487105

I'm talking about this box...

#487130

No Replies...????

#487380

No Replies...????

give it some more time, I'm sure someone will comeup with something... hopefully

#487429

msgina.dll will give u the shutdown window, but the background is defined by urself, u just need to make sure the sfc_os.dll in system32 folder never been changed b4.

then u need a replacer to replace the two files, better put the backup file on somewhere else like disk D. then it works

#487435

Does anyone have the step by step on how to do the change?

Thanks

#489150

most windowblinds skins will change this. pick up a copy of it. MSGina.dll is in charge of certain dialogs like the "Please Wait" dialog when you change a theme, the shutdown dialog, etc. etc....

just find a windowblinds skin with a dialog you'd like and voila - it's different. no file replacing, no reshacking....

#489157

You could also try this...

http://eng.softq.org/sshutdown.htm

#489161

Very interesting alternatives ,but both involved running constantly an application on the background..

I would like to edit msgina and shell32 dlls ,and get done with it..

any other solutions...???

#489203

I think there's a fault in the instructions. Where it says "Save the file and exit Reshacker", it should say "Save the file with a new name and exit Reshacker".

When you try to save msgina.dll as msgina.dll, Reshacker will first create a backup, msgina_original.dll, and then try to save the changes to msgina.dll. Only it can't, because it is a system file. So what you wind up with is two identical files, msgina.dll and msgina_original.dll.

If you open and edit msgina_orginal.dll with Reshacker, and then use msgina.dll as the original in Replacer and msgina_original.dll as the new, I think you'll find you can sucessfully change your menus.

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