User's Manual

Customize Windows

Here, you can specify the Position of the progress bar, your Foreground color and the

Border

Click

color as desired. Position the progress bar at a location that does not interfere with

the overall impression of the image. This option is not available in Windows Vista because

the progress bar is not shown in the alternative boot screen that is used.

Save boot screen to assign a name to your creation and to add it to the list of

available boot screens.

Tips for successful boot screens under Windows

All boot screens may have only 16 colors under Windows XP for technical reasons, and

some of these colors are prescribed by the operating system (for example, black). For this

reason, TuneUp Styler must reduce the breadth of colors in your composition (normally

16.7 million) to a very few when you click Finish

Experience has shown that the most attractive boot screens can be created with pictures

with

. TuneUp Styler uses a sophisticated

algorithm for this to automatically determine the best 16 colors for your picture. If the

picture contains too many different colors, however, the results of this conversion may not

be satisfactory.

only a small number of different colors. This means, for example, that a picture

that consists predominantly of different blue shades and only a few contrasting colors will

most likely result in an attractive boot screen.

Set the foreground color of the progress bar to a color that is contained in your picture.

This way, you do not use one of the precious 16 colors in the progress bar only.

You should avoid skin tones

"Start Logo" category (Windows Vista only)

Just before Windows Vista logon, a small animation of the Windows logo appears. You can

use TuneUp Styler to replace this animation with another without making dangerous

changes to the system. Simply click on

in your boot screen if at all possible. Pictures with skin tones

normally cannot be displayed correctly with only 16 colors (ask any graphical artist). Of

course, you may be lucky. The best thing to do is try!

Start logo animation

3. Customize

progress bar

(Windows XP only)

in the navigation bar. A list

of the Start logo animations available in the Styler appears.

4. Finish

This is how you get

the best results.