How to Turn Your Win95/98
Computer into a Hacker Box (continued)
How to Get Those Boring Windows Graphics
Back
Oh, no, snoopy sister Suzie is coming to visit and she wants
to use your computer to read her email! You'll never hear the
end of it if she sees that K-Rad Doomsters of the Apocalypse
start up screen! Or maybe you boss discovers what you did to
circumvent your LAN. Oh, oh.
Here's how to get your Win95/98 graphics back. Just change
the name of c:logo.sys (or logow.sys etc.) to something innocuous
that sister Suzie or your boss won't notice while snooping with
File Manager. Something like fu.bak. Better yet, see that evil
genius note above and make it a hidden file. Then if you want
it back, all you need do is change back its name. Then rename
the original logo files - you did save them, right? - to logo.sys
etc.
Oh, no, what if you didn't save those Win95/98 logo graphics?
What if somehow you screw up beyond all recognition the original
files? You still may be OK. Just delete your new version of logo.sys
and guess what happens? You get the original Windows start up
graphic!
How the heck does that happen?
Those Microsoft guys figured we'd be doing things like this
and hid a copy of their boring bootup screen in a file named
io.sys. So if you rename or delete their original logo.sys, and
there is no file by that name left, on bootup your computer displays
their Windows 95 screen, pulled up from io.sys.
Warning! There are several variants of Windows 95 and 98 out
there. We can't guarantee that this will work on every system.
Also, have you heard of Murphy's Law: if anything can go wrong
it will? What if you wind up in a mess like this fellow? "
Can someone please help me . . I successfully changed my Winblowz
start-up and shut-down screens to be really kewl. Unfortunately
. . . if (my parents) saw my cool Haxor start-up screens as they
are now they'd probably kill me!!! I tried doing all of the io.sys
bit . . . but am having no luck."
If you absolutely, certainly must be able to get back your
Windows graphics, if your parents or boss would seriously kill
you if you mess up, and you still do this stuph, remember, it
was your idea to try this stuff. But here is your absolute desperate
final solution. Just reinstall Win95/98 and every time it asks
you if it should overwrite old files, say yes.
Okay, it's time to move on to more serious hacker fun in the
next tutorial, How to Break into Windows
95/98 Computers. In the meantime, if there are any 31337
hackers out there who are feeling insulted because this stuff
is too easy to be called hacking, tough cookies, no one forced
you to read this. I'll bet my box looks more kewl than yours
does. K-Rad Doomsters of the Apocalypse, yesss!
