How To Change Windows XP SP3 Installtion Setup Background Look

Whenever you intall Windows XP and installation starts, a boring blue screen appears and your installation continues.

Is’nt that really a boring screen ?? But what if I say you can change this all to your own screen and text. !!

Yes it is possible !! See this screenshot of the hacked version of Windows setup ;

So hows the new look ???

In this post I am going to tell you that how you can add your own images and text. So lets start.

Requirements :

For this tutorial you will need 4 things :

1) Windows XP CD
2) Resource Hacker : You will get it in the next of my post.
3) Winrar : Google is you can get it easliy.
3) The image you want to replace

Now lets start :

This hack requires a little knowledge about Resource Hacker. If you are new to it just read this tutorial on

 Now I start this tutorial thinking that you know the basics of Resource Hacker.

Just download the Resource Hacker and insert your XP CD into your CD ROM.

Now search for the Winntbbu.dll file in it. If you do not find it then search for WINNTBBU.DL_

When you find this file open it with Winrar it and extract Winntbbu.dll from it.

Now in Resource Hacker open that Winntbbu.dll file.

Now in the left hand side panel go to Bitmap >> 103 >> 1033

Right click on 1033 and replace it with your image.

Note : Make sure that your image should be in .bmp format

For help see this screenshot :

If you want to change the text you can change it by going to String Table

Just go to String Table and click on 1 and change the text you want and then click on Compile Script. This way you can change all your text from 1 to 63

See this screenshot, how I changed the text :

Before changing the text :

After changing the text :

• Now save the file.
• Now the saved file is in .dll format and we have to change it to .DL_
•  So to change it we again require Winrar.
• Now right click on the file and select add to archive… and change the name from Winntbbu.rar to Winntbbu.DL_ and click OK.

See this screenshot for help :

Now replace Winntbbu.DL_ in your CD with this file and make a bootable CD. And from now when you will install Windows your new image will be displayed as background.

If you do not know how to make a bootable CD, read this post on how to make a bootable CD

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