Change Windows 7 Bootscreen Using Windows 7 Boot Updater

Images and tutorial has been taken from: AskVG.com 

ATTENTION!

This tool is attended for high experienced users only! So, if you are not familiar with this kind of stuff, we recommend you to not try this on your computer!
Not to forget if you get some crashes on your Windows system after using this tool, don't contact us for bug report! So use it at your own risk!


Since Microsoft released Windows 7, hacks are available for changing the login screen style, explorer frame style, etc by hacking some DLLs inside the Windows System32 folder. But according to the reports that I have been seeing when my friends tested Windows 7, there is one thing that we could not hack at the moment, which is the Windows 7 new boot screen animation and text.
But now, the wait for hacking the bootscreen is over, because a programmer from the Coder For Life website, Jeff Bush has just developed an excellent tool that we can use to change the Windows 7 bootscreen animation and text called Windows 7 Boot Updater!

FEATURES

- Modifies Windows 7 boot screen animation.

- Modifies the Windows 7 boot screen text entries such as the "Microsoft Corporation" and "Starting Windows".

- Supports 32 Bit and 64 Bit versions of Windows 7.


HOW TO USE

1. Download the software using the given link below.

2. Double click the EXE file while done downloading.

3. Now you can change the text of the Windows 7 boot screen, the color, and the boot animation.

4. To change the animation, you have to create the animation first! The animation is:

- 105 frames (if there are less frames the last frame will be repeated as necessary)

- Each frame is 200x200px (resized if necessary)

- 15 frames / sec

- First 4 seconds play once then the last 3 seconds play in a loop

The program loads a folder containing all the frames as PNGs, GIFs, BMPs, TIFs, or JPEGs images. The files will be played in alphabetical order. If you are numbering them, use the same number of digits for all numbers (e.g. 001, 002, ..., 103, 105). For 'historical' reasons, the animation can also be a folder containing a single BMP named "activity.bmp" that is 200x21000px.


HOW TO RESTORE SYSTEM

When you see the Windows System Recovery Environment when you restart your system after changing the boot screen, you can fix the problem using the following method!

1. When Windows Recovery Environment is showing, press Cancel right away (while it is scanning).

2. When you see a warning message, click Yes.

3. Click View advanced options for system recovery and support.

4. Select your keyboard types, and click Next.

5. Select an account, not HomeGroupUser$ and enter password and click OK.

6. When you see the options window, click the Command Prompt.

7. Type the following in the Command Prompt

C:
cd \Windows\System32
del winload.exe
ren "winload~1.exe" winload.exe
exit


8. If you are running Windows on another partition besides C:, change the partition letter to your partition (e.g. D:).

9. Click Restart, and you will be able to boot into Windows again normally.


Download Windows 7 Boot Updater

Thanks to AskVG.com for the tutorial and images