2011-04-15, 11:14
I'm trying to hide all remnants of windows during the startup to give the illusion that XBMC is being booted directly after the bios screen. So far I disabled the startup GUI, changed the welcome screen background to be exactly the same as the XBMC startup screen. Also, windows is set to autologin into windows and boots eventghost as a shell which boots directly into XBMC (plus use the -hide parameter to hide eventghost). BUT there is 2 things left I need to do to hide the remnants of the windows startup:
1. Disable the "welcome" text and loading circle thingy from the windows welcome screen.
Is there a way the welcome screen can be disabled all together? or at the very least disable the the "welcome" text?
2. After the welcome screen is finished loading, Hide or Disable the mouse cursor
I figure I can find an all black cursor to fix that, but my only concern with that if there is any need for me to get into explorer I wont be able to see the cursor since my background is set to all black. I think the cursor is secondary to the welcome screen.
Thanks for any help.
1. Disable the "welcome" text and loading circle thingy from the windows welcome screen.
Is there a way the welcome screen can be disabled all together? or at the very least disable the the "welcome" text?
2. After the welcome screen is finished loading, Hide or Disable the mouse cursor
I figure I can find an all black cursor to fix that, but my only concern with that if there is any need for me to get into explorer I wont be able to see the cursor since my background is set to all black. I think the cursor is secondary to the welcome screen.
Thanks for any help.