Old PCs, new home
I’ve been quite busy over the Xmas / new year period, so updating this blog has been very patchy.
I’ve also had some requests for new PCs & to upgrade old hardware to “newer” low-cost hardware (ie used PCs).
As part of my company “Marketing” I would place a “Computer Aid” sticker on these PCs (and on any I worked on at home).
I’ve now taken this up a notch & started tinkering with the startup images of XP & win98 & also inserted my web site (http://www.computeraid.net.au) into their web browsers home pages.
I have found the win XP software by stardock (bootskin) an excellent way to replace the windows XP startup logo with my Computer Aid logo. Take a look at: http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin
Of course the customers are free to change the startup screen to whatever they want afterwards.
Wow. I found your site to be very useful because it is full of troubleshooting personal PC problems and the range of issues is large.
Found you through Fred Langa.
Keep up the good work! I am bookmarking you!
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Thanks tanj.
With many many years of experience, I find I can easily deal with a large range of issues.
Hey—
Do these “bootskins” hide the POST diagnostic we see at start up or does it replace the Windows logo?
I don’t think I would want it to hide POST.
bootskins only replace the windows logo.
Although I have found a recent bios that lets you re-flash the bios with your own “manufacturers” logo (similar to what compaq, toshiba, etc use on their PCs)