Windows 7 Boot Updater
A program that makes it easy to update the Windows 7 boot animation and text. Please tell me if you find any problems or design cool animations!
Some parts of / contributions to the program are released as open-source.
If you wish to understand how this all works you can visit a thread at Seven Forums. Joakim, marcusj0015, and myself (thaimin) hashed out the details there.
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By downloading this program you agree to the terms and conditions. Specifically not for commercial use. If you wish to use it for a commercial purpose, please contact me.
This is currently being tested! Use it at your own risk. If you run into problems, see Troubleshooting.
Version: v0 Beta 1 (v0.0.1.1)
If you are unsure if this program is a virus or malware, please check out it's report at VirusTotal (and vote it as Goodware). As a reminder, always download this program from this website.
If you would like to design your own interfaces, I have created a DLL that can update the boot screen and load and save bootskin files. Please contact me for more information.
Details
Current Version: v0 Beta 1 (v0.0.1.1)
Features
- Modifies the boot animation, colors, text, and background
- Modifies the resume from hibernation screen as well
- Will create the animation from 105 BMP, PNG, GIF, or TIFF images or use a single (non-animated) image
- Does not require any other applications (like ImageX)
- Designed to be idiot-proof by having numerous checks
- Automatically backs-up the modified files
- Does not require test-signing or no-integrity-checks to be enabled
- Works for all versions of Windows 7: any language, any edition, 32-bit or 64-bit, RTM or SP1
- Available in English, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian, French, Dutch, Hungarian, Hebrew, and Vietnamese (contribute a translation)
- Works even if your setup has the hidden "System Reserved" partition
- Can be run as a GUI, command-line program, or installer/uninstaller
Changes
v0 Beta 1b (v0.0.1.1b)
- Patch definitions update to support Windows Update KB2949927 and a few other versions of Windows 7 (these are auto-downloaded by the program).
- Updated the command-line version of the program to include those definitions and a fix other bug fixes.
- Added an installer-creator program since the built-in feature is broken.
v0 Beta 1 (v0.0.1.1)
- Able to work with already modified files (that were modified with this version of this program or later)
- Improved BCD device detection and elimination of redundant error messages
- Fixed many problems with the installer which caused it to crash
- Improved backup system and unlocking files when possible
- Improved patching system
- Smaller BS7 files (but they cannot be opened by older versions of the program)
- Includes translations for Spanish, French, Dutch, Hungarian, Hebrew, and Vietnamese (contribute a translation)
- Improved language support including external translation loading (means there can be language packs and translators can see how the translations look)
- Numerous other minor changes and fixes
Todo
- Load bootskin from modified files and export data from bootskin
- Bootskin sharing system
- Allow integration into boot.wim/install.wim
- Change animation location, size, frame rate, length, and loop frame
- Work on systems that have a native resolution less than 1024x768
- Support EFI, Windows 8, PXE, and BitLocker boot loaders
- Support WES7
- Rename files instead of using the winload.exe and winresume.exe filenames
