BootSkin XP


 * For the successor format, see BootSkin Vista.

"BootSkin XP" is the name of a format, used by a program of the same name, that allows users to change the Windows boot screen. BootSkin XP files are a ZIP file containing :
 * a 640x480, 4-bit color BMP image that would be displayed at startup;
 * another BMP image, 22x9 pixels, 4-bit color, to be displayed as the progress bar;
 * a file in the INI format called "bootskin.ini" containing metadata.

Support was dropped around mid-late 2008 in favor of BootSkin Vista (which is often conflated with BootSkin XP under the name "BootSkin").

Links

 * Homepage, combined with BootSkin Vista
 * Skins on "Skinbase" (run by the same company that makes the software)
 * Combined Wikipedia page for both BootSkin versions