media portal bootup screen & shell switch (2 Viewers)

[Anonymous]

Ok, I made a 4 bit (16 colors) bmp, 640x480. I am not sure what more is needed but take a look at it and let me know what you think.

http://hem.bredband.net/b244633/screens/bootscreen.bmp

On all of the pages about this there where several warnings from ppl that had crached their systems... use it at your own risk

wow, thats better than i had hoped.

looks great!

 

[Anonymous]

Samsonite

cooooooooooooool ! Thanks

 

[Anonymous]

Has anybody managed to get a custom boot screen to work with SP2?

 

[cheezey]

I've compiled this BMP into a bootskin, you can download it from

http://www.vanderboon.co.uk/mp/

Save the file to disk, unzip it then import it into BootSkin

http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/

This works on SP2.

 

[Anonymous]

has anyone else made a boot screen?
if so post it please

 

[Anonymous]

I have one!

www.kauforgie.com/HTPC/test.bmp

I´ve done my best!

 

[Haplo]

And regarding your question about the shell replacement:


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"Shell"="C:\Program Files\Team Mediaportal\Mediaportal.exe"

Doesn't work for me, get an application exception when it tries to load Mediaportal.
The path as written is also wrong at least according to the installation of 0.0.0.9....it should be:
"C:\Program Files\Team Mediaportal\Mediaportal\Mediaportal.exe"

Anyone else with this issue ?

However if I then launch the taskmanager->run and then start mediaportal it works without problems.

 

[Anonymous]

Can someone make with this 2 pictures

www.kauforgie.com\htpc\test.bmp and
www.kauforgie.com\htpc\test2.bmp

a Boot-Screen. I can not install SkinStudio. I don't know why!

Maybe I must to reinstall my computer.... FORMAT C: :x

 

[Anonymous]

Doesn't work for me, get an application exception when it tries to load Mediaportal.
The path as written is also wrong at least according to the installation of 0.0.0.9....it should be:
"C:\Program Files\Team Mediaportal\Mediaportal\Mediaportal.exe"

I got this too. It seems explorer must be doing something that MP requires. You say if you use task manager to load MP after the error , it works?
If that's right, I guess there's something explorer initializes. I wonder what it is?
I posted this as a bug in the bugs sections. Hopefully Frodo can give use some insight.

 

[mama]

Did you already try to install MP without the folder "Team Mediaportal"? I had probs with the blank when copying the tvguide via batch, now it works without the blank.