Windows 7 - How to change boot animation in Windows 7

One of the gotchas for WinUpdates would be MRT. If original reg entries are in tact, MRT will remove the modded files.
Vista. Those using Windows Mail in Win 7 are using Windows Mail from Windows Vista or at the very least, one file from Vista. Yes it was recently updated.
I haven't found that to be the case for me, at least not in the Windows Mail from Vista experiment due to SFC, MRT or both. What you guys/gals or working on may work that way though due to the way ya'll are modding it. With WinMail, SFC checked either the version number or the hash and saw it as foreign and repaired it. WinUpdates with MRT did the same if I'm not mistaken. Can't remember for sure now, it's been some time back.

I have uploaded alpha 6, it successfully signs bootres.dll (moral of the story: the built-in Windows resource updating functions SUCK, and I kinda knew this before but at least before when they didn't work they would generate an error...)



So I did some exploring and I found that winload.exe is heavily hard-linked, the following files are all actually just links to the same file:

Windows\System32\winload.exe
Windows\System32\boot\winload.exe
Windows\winsxs\...b..vironment-os-loader...\winload.exe
Windows\winsxs\...b..environment-windows...\winload.exe

So winsxs isn't a backup at all. It is the files themselves (at least for bootres and winload). On that note, I noticed that after doing some stuff with Windows\System32\winload.exe the winsxs version also became corrupted. Good thing that my program auto-creates backups and I could restore in Windows Recovery Environment (the auto-recovery was no longer able to restore the file).

Regardless, I have written code to search and delete for the appropriate entries in the SideBySide\Winner registry, so I will start testing that soon.

Hi,
i just got the following message: "... however it was not signed because the CA could not be installed.".
Maybe because i didn't install the certificate from your website? But its offline since the first time i tried to download it 3 hours ago.

Regards from germany, David

-- Thank you

I think you're on the right track with that. I've found that the reference in the registry was the key to non corruption. In the case of WinMail, I experimented, albeit very little, with the version numbers in the registry entries under Winner since the Windows Mail was from Vista with a different version number. In the case of this boot animation, editing version numbers in the registry wouldn't work since you are using a release version number which already exists.
Lol, that was kinda the point of my last reply. They're just links/placeholders for an original and replacing it from within the running OS or even booting into another OS and doing it from there is going to corrupt it. The registry is the key for a semi-permanent replacement.

M46935: Oops! The certificate is uploaded, but you don't need it. I have fixed the install CA problem (I recently changed it and since I already had the certificate installed the error never came up).

Greg S: Great! I will get to this, but not right at this moment.

"The file was successfully updated, however it failed to be self-signed"
exited with error code 84

I already installed the certificate is this a problem?

Same here
it says could not be self signed.
i installed the certificate (altough it failed without your programm [too many options]) and rebooted.
CRASH.
needed to fix it manually

Taimin,

you have a tool for everything!

thats awesome

greg s

what you do is goto the WinSxS folder and search for what ever file your working on and goto the folder that contains it (all folders if theres multiple there usually are)

copy it to the dekstop mod it and copy it back to the same folder your good

and repeat for a nessicary files

Thaimin,

your app is reporting complete success ill test it in a sec

im gonna try again because i forgot to update the (copyright symbol) microsoft corp

to (copyright symbol) BumbleBritches57