27-11-2012, 07:19 PM
I have been doing some research on this and It's a lot more Involved than I first thought.
The original boot animation file (activity.bmp) is a .bmp file made up of 105 frames which plays through for 7 seconds, 15 frames per second on boot up. Each frame is 200px x 200px
A thread from the Windows seven forum (here) shows you how to do it manually.
Everything else I have looked at has pointed me to (this) website where there is an application that will do all of the above for you. It's pretty well documented on his site with the How to Use section.
I booted a Windows 7 virtual machine and tried the program above with (this) animation.
In the program change the Animation dropdown from Default to Animation it'll then pop up asking you to select the folder where the new animation is, you can also change the Starting Windows and the Copyright writing there's a nifty preview window as well to see what it will look like.
Click Apply then reboot.
There are some good replacement animations (here) that you might want to use.
Some info from msdn's blog on how much thought they put in to the boot animation (here) (you don't need to read this but I thought It was interesting..)
I didn't try the program you linked but the above method works
My guess for the error you got is that you were using an incorrect file.
The original boot animation file (activity.bmp) is a .bmp file made up of 105 frames which plays through for 7 seconds, 15 frames per second on boot up. Each frame is 200px x 200px
A thread from the Windows seven forum (here) shows you how to do it manually.
Everything else I have looked at has pointed me to (this) website where there is an application that will do all of the above for you. It's pretty well documented on his site with the How to Use section.
I booted a Windows 7 virtual machine and tried the program above with (this) animation.
In the program change the Animation dropdown from Default to Animation it'll then pop up asking you to select the folder where the new animation is, you can also change the Starting Windows and the Copyright writing there's a nifty preview window as well to see what it will look like.
Click Apply then reboot.
There are some good replacement animations (here) that you might want to use.
Some info from msdn's blog on how much thought they put in to the boot animation (here) (you don't need to read this but I thought It was interesting..)
I didn't try the program you linked but the above method works
My guess for the error you got is that you were using an incorrect file.