Just a question...again. This time about Vista

About Vista

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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.
skinning
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It's been 3 days with no response.
Either it's a very dumb question or nobody really does know!
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Vista has had a 1024x768 full color bootscreen since Beta 2. Just enable NoGUIBoot in MSConfig. The image is in winload.exe afaik.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Are you KIDDING ME PB!
.exe file eh?
Any way of changing the screen that you know as of yet?
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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!