Windows 7: How to change boot animation in Windows 7

I'm using Resource Hacker to extract the resources from PE files. Please check the below screenshot for Resource Hacker for file "winloader.exe"
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On the other hand, I've tried to use Stud_PE for the same file "winloader.exe". but the extracted resoucres have a different size also I can't open them using 7zip. Please check attacked video
Stud_PE.mp4

It's a bit confusing.. The winload has this xsl which is a text file. Save it as bin type (and not res), and open it with a texteditor, and you should be ok. There is no wim inside winload. The wim is found inside bootres.dll as a resource of type RCData. This one should also be extractable by using either of reshacker or studpe (never use .res type as output though).

Just had a quick view at bootmgr version 6.2.9200 and noticed there where some difference to 6.2.8250, which mean it did not recompile well in modified condition. Since time is precious these days, I put up this information just in case, for future reference. It's basically just a bunch of notes found, that I made last time I successfully did this on version 6.2.8250:

That's a stripped down version of the notes, as the rest makes no sense at all except to myself.

Hmm, I forgot the importance of a fake certificate being present. Redoing the process with a bogus certificate will still work. As for 6.2.9200 the offsets are of course different, although the logic is still the same. Looking around virtual address (va) 40128a, you'll figure it out based on the details of bootgmr in the previous post.

I tried to make my own custom animation for the boot screen but I have one problem the thing won't animate properly or really at all. My frames get squished into one frame. I was wondering exactly how are the frames arranged in an extracted active.bmp file? 200 wide by 21000 tall with first frame at the top is what I have now and that isn't working. Did you have problems like this and if so how did you fix them?

P.S. other premade BS7 files work just fine. Only mine isn't.

Has any progress been made on EFI support? I have a UEFI board and i've been able to access my EFI system partition and look at the bootmgr.efi file. Has anyone figured out how to crack it? I think this is something that should be of high priority because EFI systems are on the rise and windows 8 is picky about what type of BIOS you have. Plus, i'd really like to customize my boot animation.

This is my favorite animation that I want to apply (and I want to remove the text displayed by winload.exe) Aperture Boot on Deviantart
And i've applied it to a VM running in non-efi mode on virtual box and I really love it. I cant wait to get this to work on my host OS in EFI mode!

I don't have such a system to test on, so I really have no idea.

Use virtual box. Create a new VM and before you install windows enable EFI. You don't really need UEFI hardware to test. Theoretically, as long as you can boot the VM in EFI mode, windows will install and use an EFI boot loader.

Thanks for the tip.