BootSkin XP - Revision history

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:''For the successor format, see [[BootSkin Vista]].''
{{FormatInfo
|formattype=electronic
|subcat=Graphics
|extensions={{ext|bootskin}}
|released=2003 ?<ref>Date of https://web.archive.org/web/20031118175952/http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/</ref>
}}

"'''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<ref>https://forums.wincustomize.com/97764/bootskin-tutorial</ref>:
* 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<ref>Difference between https://web.archive.org/web/20080512170426/http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/downloads.asp and https://web.archive.org/web/20081205142104/http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/downloads.asp</ref> in favor of [[BootSkin Vista]] (which is often conflated with BootSkin XP under the name "BootSkin").

== Links ==
* [https://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/ Homepage, combined with BootSkin Vista]
* [https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/bootskins_xp Skins on "Skinbase" (run by the same company that makes the software)]
* [[Wikipedia:BootSkin|Combined Wikipedia page for both BootSkin versions]]

== References ==
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[[Category:ZIP based file formats]]

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 "'''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<ref>https://forums.wincustomize.com/97764/bootskin-tutorial</ref>:
-* a 640x480, 4-bit color [[BMP]] image that would be displayed at startup;
+* a 640x480, 4-bit color [[BMP]] image to 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.