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Boot Screen View 1.1 release

Boot Screen View 1.1 release

NOTICE! The plugin has been temporarily removed due to antivirus detects.

Windows XP boot screens preview plugin. Features:

• Previews “.bootscreen”, “.bootskin”, “.tbs” skin files, screens from kernels “ntoskrnl.exe”, “ntrnlmp.exe”, “ntkrnlpa.exe”, “ntkrpamp.exe”.
• Automatic detection of palette and progress bar position for all versions of Windows XP kernels.
• Conversion (also batch conversion) between skin formats (conversion to Windows XP kernel is not possible, but conversion from it is.) “.tbs” skins can be unprotected from editing.
• Information from INI files (skin properties) is displayed and edited.
• Thumbnails creation.
• Explorer integration: context menus of skin files.
• Imitates technical limitations: palette, screen border, specific artefacts (except “.bootskin” skins which do not imply kernel modification.) Overlays (Pro/Home etc.) are displayed according to the installed version of Windows.
• Progress bar animation.
• Respects Lister view options (centering, fitting of images etc.)
• Zoomimg with antialiasing.
• Help in Russian and English.

Category: TC Lister Plugins
Status: freeware
Author: Athari
Added: 25.06.2007
Updated: 10.02.2008
Downloaded: 73007 times

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What's new

1.1 release (12/19/07)
  + Setup and uninstall program.
  * Executable files instead of batch files. AthRundll.exe renamed to BootScreenView.exe.
  * Strict adherence to the WLX:ListLoad interface.

1.0 beta (10/2/07)
  + Batch format conversion.
  + File context menu integration. “Preview” and “Convert” operations are available.
  + Command line.
  + Copy image to clipboard.
  + Mouse wheel support.
  + Customizable bytes skip on heuristic search.
  – Bug: memory leak on options dialog close.

0.9 beta (8/18/07)
  + Options dialog. Settings are stored in the INI file and are shared between all opened plugin windows (if you change settings they are applied to all windows).
  + Localization. Currently Russian and English languages are available.
  + Export to CompuServe GIF animation. Animation is not optimized.
  + Fullscreen view with resolution change to 640x480.
  + Fade from black imitation (disabled by default).
  + It is possible to preserve all skin contents (previously all unused files within skins were removed).
  * DeleteUnused=1 now when converting from kernels to “.bootscreen” by default.
  * The plugin integrates only Lister’s main menu by default. (E.g. the menu item may disappear in UniversalViewer.)
  – Loading the same file is not ignored, reload via F2 works now.
  – Bug: main menu item remained when switching to another plugin.

0.8 alpha (7/16/07)
  + Overlays (Pro/Home etc.) for “.bootscreen” skins and kernels are displayed according to the installed version of Windows. Windows XP Pro, Home, Media Center Edition, Tablet PC Edition, Server Family are detected.
  + Thumbnail creation.
  + Information from INI files are displayed and edited. Selected files can be swithed without closing of the dialog.
  + CHM help in Russian and English.
  + All supported skins can be converted to “.bootscreen”, “.bootskin” and “.tbs”. When converting from “.bootskin” palette indices are changed for minimum distortion.
  + Protection from “.tbs” can be removed.
  + Integration into Lister’s main menu. The BootView menu is also available as context menu (in quick view mode (Ctrl+Q) it is the only available.)
  + Support for INI parameter ClearAllOverlays in “.bootscreen”.
  * Comments in integer INI parameters are ignored (frequent for “.bootscreen”.)
  – Bug: stealing of focus when viewed on quick view panel for the first time.
  – Bug: loosing of focus (and inaccessibility of hot keys) when viewed after another plugin using the hot key “4”.

0.7 alpha (07/01/07)
  + “Wise” search for positions of palette and progress bar for all versions of Windows XP kernels.
  + Support for kernels “ntkrnlpa.exe” and “ntkrpamp.exe”.

0.6.1 alpha (06/30/07)
  + Automatic plugin installation.

0.6 alpha (06/30/07)
  + Full support for “.bootskin” and “.tbs” skin formats.
  + Support for kernel versions: XP.0 MP, XP.1106 SP, XP.2096 SP/MP, XP.2180 SP, XP.3093 SP/MP GDR/QFE, Vista.16386 SP.
  + Support for INI parameters ProgressBar, Screen, ProgressBarX, ProgressBarY, ProgressBarWidth (.bootskin), ProgressBarPosY (.tbs); sections Pictures (.bootscreen), Images (.tbs).
  + Support for simplified progress bar animation for “.bootskin”.
  * Accurate detection of kernel SP/MP versions by original filename in version info.
  * Uses zlib1.dll from the plugin folder.
  * Does not imitate system restrictions for “.bootskin”.
  * Extended support for formatting of INI (ignores redundant spaces and quotes).
  * Ignores paths in archive formats (.bootscreen, .bootskin, .tbs).
  – Ignores the PrBarX parameter in “.bootscreen” (it is not supported by BootEditor and LogonUI & Boot Radomizer).

0.5 alpha (06/25/07)
  + Public release.

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