			  AXCEL216's MAX Speeed
	 Change Windows/WfWG 3.1x Startup Logo + Desktop Wallpaper
			 Step by Step Guidelines




Are you already tired of that same [read "boring" :)] Win31 startup Logo,
whenever you load the Windows/WfWG GUI, and/or of the same old Wallpaper
displayed as background on your Windows Desktop?
If you answered YES, read on...
To disable the Microsoft default Logo (.RLE, 360x420, 16 colors) built into
WIN.COM, always showing up when you load Windows/WfWG 3.1x, and replace it
with a (different EACH time) full screen VGA (640x480 or even larger, 256 or
even 16 million colors) picture (.BMP, .GIF or .JPG), and/or "admire" a new
(different EVERY time) Desktop Wallpaper (BitMaP = .BMP) when you start the
Windows GUI, follow these steps:



A. First, you need PKUNZIP.EXE, part of the PKWARE PKZIP + PKUNZIP v2.50
32-bit, THE essential DOS ZIPping/unZIPping tools, LFNs (Long File Names)
aware ONLY in a Windows 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP DOS box [202 KB, no nag shareware]:
ftp://ftp.pkware.com/PK250DOS.EXE
Place all PKWARE files into a new directory called C:\ZIP.
Edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS (CONFIG.SYS supports SET commands in
MS-DOS 6.00 and newer ONLY!), both located in C:\ root, with Notepad in
Windows or EDIT.COM in DOS, and then add C:\ZIP at the end of your PATH line.
Example:

SET PATH=C:\;C:\DOS;C:\WINDOWS;C:\MYSTUFF;C:\ZIP;

Save and reboot.



B. Download ZIPAPER v1.3c DOS mode wallpaper changer for Windows 3.1x/9x [40
KB, nag shareware]:
http://members.aol.com/files4u/ZIPAP13C.ZIP
Read the documentation included with Zipaper and install it also in C:\ZIP.



C. Use XNview graphics viewer/conversion tool for Windows/WfWG 3.1x [622 KB,
freeware, English]:
http://www.xnview.com/
to resize the bitmaps (wallpapers with the .BMP extension) you want displayed
as Win31 background. Each bitmap can be resized for example to 640x480x256
colors, to have a full screen VGA wallpaper (depending on your screen size).
XNView requires Microsoft Win32s 32-bit Extensions Add-on v1.30c [2.4 MB,
free]:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/PW1118.EXE



D. Use one of these freeware DOS graphics viewers + conversion tools:
- Ombra v7.22 [96 KB]:
http://www.enet.it/hpg/ew/ombra722.zip
- PictView v1.94 [105 KB]:
http://www.pictview.com/pictview.zip
to display a full screen [any VGA/(X)SVGA mode up to 1600x1200 screen
resolution, even in true color: 16 million colors] picture whenever you
start/load Windows from a batch file, replacing the Windows default built-in
startup [read "boring" :)] logo.
These tools require a VESA/VBE 2.0/3.0 compliant video card and MS-DOS 5/6 or
MS Windows 95/98/ME.
Install them in the same C:\ZIP directory mentioned above, and *READ* their
manuals to learn how to use them.
Add a line to your CONFIG.SYS file for Ombra or PictView, AFTER your last
DEVICE/DEVICEHIGH command, to display your favorite full screen .BMP image
every time you boot (see below), BEFORE starting Windows, while processing
all commands listed in your Config.sys and Autoexec.bat. It's cool to see a
new picture on the screen, instead of being bored with the same scrolling
messages of drivers/TSRs/programs loading from your Config.sys and
Autoexec.bat every time upon bootup. Example of Config.sys line:

INSTALL=C:\ZIP\OMBRA.EXE /M22 /Q /S C:\ZIP\WALPAPER.BMP

The /Q and /S parameters are MANDATORY, forcing Ombra to return to the DOS
command line to allow processing of the next batch command, while leaving the
picture on the screen.

INSTALL=C:\ZIP\PICTVIEW.EXE C:\ZIP\WALPAPER.BMP 640 --NOCLS --Q

The --NOCLS and --Q parameters are MANDATORY, forcing PictView to return to
the DOS command line to allow processing of the next batch command, while
leaving the picture on the screen.

Then make these your LAST Autoexec.bat lines, to have ZIPAPER extract a NEW
.BMP file from BMPS.ZIP (also located in C:\ZIP) every time you run it:

C:
CD\ZIP
C:\ZIP\ZIPAPER C:\ZIP\BMPS.ZIP C:\ZIP\PKUNZIP.EXE /NR
CD\
WIN %1 %2 %3

The /NR parameter above forces ZIPAPER to extract the BMPs in the order they
are zipped into BMPS.ZIP, each time you run Zipaper, which stores this
information in a file it creates the first time you run it, called
BMPS.ZPA (if your zip file name is BMPS.ZIP), also located in C:\ZIP in
this example.
Run ZIPAPER without any switches from any DOS prompt for usage details.
You need to have all (Zipaper supports a maximum of 500 files in one archive!)
your 256 colors (number of colors is optional) full screen VGA (640x480 or
larger) bitmaps, (with the .BMP extension), zipped using PKZIP.EXE into the
BMPS.ZIP archive, and place it also in C:\ZIP.
You can use one of these popular graphic formats with Ombra or PictView: .BMP,
.GIF or .TGA (PictView supports also the .JPG format). Just mention the file
extension on the command line (examples):

C:\ZIP\OMBRA C:\PICS\MYPIC.GIF /Q /S

or:

C:\ZIP\PICTVIEW C:\PICS\MYPIC.JPG --NOCLS --Q



E. You can use the same procedure (above) to have a new bitmap displayed as
your desktop background wallpaper, every time you load Windows. All you have
to do is start Win31 from a DOS batch file to include these lines, or add them
at the end of your Autoexec.bat (example):

@ECHO OFF
C:
CD\ZIP
C:\ZIP\ZIPAPER C:\ZIP\BMPS.ZIP C:\ZIP\PKUNZIP.EXE /NR
WIN : %1 %2 %3

Note that using the undocumented "WIN :" switch [see "WIN.COM HIDDEN
PARAMETERS" in SECRETS.TXT (included)] may cause sudden lockups with some
older video controllers! But you can create a "logo free" WIN.COM file by
running NOLOGO.BAT (included).
Make sure ALL required files for building a new WIN.COM reside in your
Windows/WfWG SYSTEM subdirectory (default is C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM): WIN.CNF +
VGALOGO.LGO.
Also make sure NOLOGO.RLE (together with ALL other files included in
W31-11D.ZIP) is located in the C:\W31-11D directory for this to work!
If you wish to restore your original WIN.COM, run RESTLOGO.BAT (included).
IMPORTANT:
Both NOLOGO.BAT + RESTLOGO.BAT MUST be run ONLY from a DOS session WITHIN
Windows, NOT from real MS-DOS mode OUTSIDE Windows GUI!
Alternative method: see "NO LOGO" in MYTIPS31.TXT (included).



F. Prior to this, zip up all your full screen size wallpapers/bitmaps (.BMP),
640x480x256 colors (size and number of colors are optional) into a single zip
file called BMPS.ZIP, and place it in the same directory, C:\ZIP.
Then add/modify these lines under the [Desktop] section of your WIN.INI file,
found in your Win31 directory:

[Desktop]
TileWallPaper=0
BmpDir=C:\ZIP
WallPaper=C:\ZIP\WALPAPER.BMP

To change your Windows background wallpaper:

1. Place all .BMP files in the directory of your choice.
2. Change the default directory that contains your wallpapers by editing your
WIN.INI file. Open it with Notepad, and scroll down to the [Desktop] section.
Add/modify the BmpDir= line, to point to the directory where your favorite
BitMaPs reside (C:\ZIP in this example):

[Desktop]
BmpDir=C:\ZIP

3. Open Control Panel or run CONTROL.EXE.
4. Double-click on your Desktop icon.
5. Click on the down arrow that lists your Windows wallpapers, and scroll to
the bitmap you want. All your wallpapers (in .BMP format) MUST be located in
the same directory as shown on the WIN.INI line above for this to work.
6. Make sure to check the "Center Bitmap" box if the screen size is larger
than your selected image.
7. Click OK to save your changes.



				Conclusion



* It's cool to have a bunch of bitmaps in a zip file, so they don't take much
disk space, and have Windows show up a different full screen wallpaper every
time it loads. I have over 450 Windows style desktop wallpapers (with the .BMP
extension), 640x480x256 colors bitmaps, compressed into a single ZIP archive
(BMPS.ZIP) which takes only 53 MB. The individual (non-compressed) .BMP files
would occupy over 135 MB!
To make all this work, I start both Windows 98 SE and WfWG 3.11 (using Win98's
dual-boot feature) from a batch file called W31.BAT (included), you can view
with Notepad.

* You can use SUNKNWIN.BMP or AXCEL216.BMP (640x480 pixels, 256 colors, BitMaP
format), both included here, as your Windows background wallpaper.
Make sure to check the "Center Bitmap" box in Control Panel -> Desktop icon if
the screen size is larger than your selected image.
For more cool BitMaPs to use as Windows wallpapers, download MYBMPS.ZIP [1.82
MB, FREEware]:
http://members.aol.com/axcel216/winfiles/MYBMPS.ZIP
My favorites are CODE*.BMP, MAX*.BMP, 216*.BMP, SAFE*.BMP + CACT*.BMP, each in
3 different screen sizes: 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 pixels (file names
match pixel width).

* CREDITS:
AXCEL216.BMP is freely distributed original artwork by Conny Jonsson's
Graphics:
http://connect.to/conny/
created in JPG format (1024x768, 16 million colors, 24-bit). I converted it to
Windows BitMaP format (640x480, BMP, 256 colors, 8-bit) using Adobe PhotoShop:
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/
for ease of use as background wallpaper, to reduce Windows memory requirements
and file size.
You'll find other cool computer generated original 3D JPEG images at Conny's
home site!
See my Site Logos page for more 3D pics:
http://members.aol.com/axcel216/logo.htm

Enjoy!