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by shernandez

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A friend installed a screensaver package (men in black) that also changed the startup and shutdown screens (as you boot and shutdown the PC)
I've found how to change the shutdown screeen (logow.sys). I looked for the logo.sys startup screen but isnot there. Is it the same as on a win95? Does anyone know how to change back to the win98 start up screen? Can you please e-mail me the instructions?

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by shernandez

By the way this "friend" removed the men in black screen saver package but it left the "Men in black" startup screen and shotdown screen with the men in black theme.

by billygilbreath

The file you are looking for is LOGO.SYS and is in the root directory of your boot drive. It's possible that this file has been overwritten by the screensaver package. If that's the case, you'll see the file there but it will show the screensaver's screen.

If you just want to turn off that image, you can put a line in the MSDOS.SYS that says:

LOGO=0

This might cause your computer to boot marginally faster because your computer doesn't have to wait for that screen to load. If you want the original image to show, you'll have to replace LOGO.SYS with one that shows the original image. One way is to copy LOGO.SYS from another Win98 computer. Another way is to extract LOGO.SYS from your Win98 installation disk.

by billygilbreath

To Extract System Files from your Installation Disks:

Start System File Checker.
Click Extract one file from installation disk.
Type the name of the file in File to extract, or click Browse.
Click Start.
In Restore From, type the name of the folder where the .cab files are located on your installation disk.
If necessary, change the path in Save file in.

Click OK.

Note
You can open System File Checker by clicking Start, pointing to Programs, pointing to Accessories, pointing to System Tools, and then clicking System Information. In System Information, click Tools, and then click System File Checker.

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