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    Thought I'd share

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by c3Rhcno, Sep 30, 2010.

  1. c3Rhcno

    c3Rhcno Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well I made this very basic alienware login screen for my M11X, what inspired me was this. And just incase anyone is interested what I did was put this (I found that just by googling alienware logo) ontop of the windows 7 default logon screen and set the blend mode to screen, then with trial and error made it align with my user icon.

    Oh and I almost forgot, to set it as your login screen just place it in C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds and keep the file name it has (backgrounddefault.jpg). It should apply straight away if you're on an alienware laptop if not, download this and double click it, then just do the same process as above.

    Also here is a little pack I made that has the NVIDIA logo in the bottom left corner plus the available processors for the M11x (Core 2 Duo, i3, i5, i7, i7 extreme)

    And here is the Photoshop .PSD file.
     

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  2. Itsnotlikethat

    Itsnotlikethat Notebook Consultant

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    Nice one mate!
     
    Itsnotlikethat, Sep 30, 2010
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    Now if we can work out how to replace 'that' black head scooped out Alien brain thing, at the pre-BIOS boot level (F2) prior to the logon screen, then you might hear me squeal like a pig with excitement. :)
     
    DrGoodvibes, Sep 30, 2010
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  4. c3Rhcno

    c3Rhcno Notebook Enthusiast

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    I seem to remember in my old laptop there was a setting called "silent boot up" or something, with it enabled it showed the acer logo on boot up, and with it disabled it had POST
     
    c3Rhcno, Sep 30, 2010
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    Beautiful!
     
    Cherude, Sep 30, 2010
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    Sweet. Can you do one for the original log on screen(the red one) with intel, and nvidia logos?
     
    ACHlLLES, Sep 30, 2010
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    Really cool! Just put it on mine.
     
    Iolas, Sep 30, 2010
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    c3Rhcno Notebook Enthusiast

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    Sure, I'll get onto it now!
     
    c3Rhcno, Sep 30, 2010
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    Rep sir!!!
     
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    c3Rhcno Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for all the hard work you've put it, much better then that cruddy old windows logo ;)
     
    City., Sep 30, 2010
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  12. c3Rhcno

    c3Rhcno Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks, and it's not that hard, just during my spare time as a student and I'm also happy to take any requests from people
     
    c3Rhcno, Sep 30, 2010
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    This is actually really well done. Nice. :)
     
    lostinmysenses, Oct 2, 2010
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