Windows 7: imageres.dll ?

In the System 32 folder is a imageres.dll file. If I remember correctly, and I reserve the right to be 100% wrong here, there are .bmps in the file for desktops during the boot/shutdown procedures.
I also think there is/was a program that be used to open and edit these files.

Does anybody know what I am refering to here?

I am curently testing Windows Thin PC, which is a "light" version of Windows 7 and it has the nicest logn on "screen/desktop" I seen in all the Windows versions. I'd like to be able to dig around and get a copy of it.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Also, not sure this is posted in the correct place, sorry if it isn't.

Do you want a copy only for the looks of the startup screen? There is way's of changing the startup screen you know.

I want to get the .bmp used so I can use it as a desk top, if at all possbile. Thanks for the reply.

ALSO - I may want to use it in other Windows versions.

Restorator is prob what you want, and you may want to look at the bootres.dll file also....

Thank you, I'll give it a try.

Do you know where I might find the boot up and shut down bitmaps? I forgot how little I knew about this project - I know NOTHING...

Isn't it easier just to take a copy of imageres.dll and put it in your regular Windows 7 ?

I could do that, but I'd like to find the .bmp and use it as a desk top in the Windows Thin PC version.

ETA - I found them - imageres.dll "IMAGE"

If it's that pretty - you might post it up for us.

Clean - neat - nice - simple