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#1 2008-05-15 2:00 pm
- Elahrairah
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How do you change the startup screen in OS 10.4?
Nuff said. How do you change it?
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#2 2008-05-15 4:32 pm
Re: How do you change the startup screen in OS 10.4?
You need to replace a file called "Aqua Blue.jpg"
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#3 2008-05-15 4:54 pm
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Re: How do you change the startup screen in OS 10.4?
Elahrairah wrote:
Nuff said. How do you change it?
which start up screen do you wish to change?
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#4 2008-05-15 11:37 pm
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Re: How do you change the startup screen in OS 10.4?
I was thinking the second one (with the progress bar), but if I could change the actual start-up apple itself, that would be even better.
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#5 2008-05-16 12:18 am
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Re: How do you change the startup screen in OS 10.4?
To what?
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#6 2008-05-16 3:06 pm
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Re: How do you change the startup screen in OS 10.4?
Elahrairah wrote:
I was thinking the second one (with the progress bar), but if I could change the actual start-up apple itself, that would be even better.
So you would like to change either
a:
or
b:
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#7 2008-05-16 3:53 pm
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Re: How do you change the startup screen in OS 10.4?
That's what he said.
...I don't think you can change either.
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#8 2008-05-16 6:23 pm
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Re: How do you change the startup screen in OS 10.4?
You can easily change picture (b) with a shareware title called Visage. I don't know if you can change picture (a).
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#9 2008-05-16 11:07 pm
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Re: How do you change the startup screen in OS 10.4?
you can, by editing some sort of file in the Mac's critical startup files.
Thanks for clicking.
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#10 2008-05-16 11:51 pm
Re: How do you change the startup screen in OS 10.4?
I think I've changed the startup screen background in every version of OS X since 10.3.
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#11 2008-05-16 11:53 pm
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Re: How do you change the startup screen in OS 10.4?
dvpierce wrote:
That's what he said.
...I don't think you can change either.
I know you could in 10.3.
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#12 2008-05-19 2:02 pm
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Re: How do you change the startup screen in OS 10.4?
matt wrote:
I think I've changed the startup screen background in every version of OS X since 10.3.
How?
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#13 2008-05-19 7:44 pm
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Re: How do you change the startup screen in OS 10.4?
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