Questions tagged [splash]

A splash screen is a rectangular or full screen image which appears while a software product is loading (OS, application, game, etc.). Often it contains a progress bar, showing the loading in progress.

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Do not redraw screen on Linux boot with black, keep splash screen from uboot until HDMI is fully initialized

I'm working on embedded device with raspberry pi and HDMI screen. I want to have splash image displayed during boot, but HDMI in my Linux image is initialized after 13-14 second. I can display splash ...
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How can I change my BIOS splashscreen?

How can I change my BIOS splashscreen? I have an AMD Athlon64 PC with Windows 7. I have a MS-7367 motherboard. My BIOS = American Megatrends, Inc. v3.0. (date: 06/06/2007) (got the info from CPU-Z)
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How to remove overlaid background during the "loading initial ramdisk" screen?

I am on Debian, and have set a custom grub theme, with custom background and stuff. It works, but when Linux boots, during the "loading initial ramdisk" screen, it overlays the default ...
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How to change the logo on the HP MP9 back to the default HP boot up logo?

We purchased this HP MP9 PC from our mother chapter, now, we cut out ties to them, however their logo was still embedded on the PC during boot/start up splash screen. It supposed to show the HP logo, ...
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How to disable / change the photoshop cc splash screen (on Mac)

When you open photoshop cc on mac you get this image: Photoshop CC Splash screen I want to disable it, or (if impossible) to change it to my own image. I know it's loading stuff, I only want to get ...
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Windows returns to the same exact state after reboot

So, I'm using windows 11 on Lenovo Thinkpad E590. The problems started after installing Docker desktop and Splash. It was working just fine when suddenly blue screen of death appeared with syren like ...
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How to disable the splash screen on single monitor,

my stack is: raspberrypi, uboot, buildroot and weston. I have two display devices connected to the board. First is the touchscreen for the user interface(HDMI-A-1), second is for the projector (HDMI-A-...
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Changing kernel bootsplash image?

I want to display a custom boot splash image on my Beaglebone Black (running Ångström). I know of three places where images can be dumped to the framebuffer: Bootloader (uboot) - needs display ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 change splash screen

I have just installed Ubuntu 16.04 and would like to change the splash screen. I have already changed the text "Ubuntu 16.04" by editing the file /usr/share/plymouth/themes/text.plymouth as shown ...
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BIOS splash screen and Linux Mint disk unencryption disappeared

I'm on Linux Mint 18.2 with my AMD Ryzen 7 1700 and an NVidia GTX 1060 GPU. Linux 4.10.0-42-generic #46~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 4 15:57:59 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Distributor ID: ...
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Possible to see POST when no option in BIOS to disable splash screen or quiet boot?

Is there keyboard key or combination of keys you can press during POST to make the manufacturer splash screen go away so you can see the POST screen? The BIOS on my Dell Optiplex systems does not ...
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batch splashscreen or something similar

I have written a simple batch script (which will be converted to an .exe later) which checks if a server is reached before opening its webpage: @echo off ping -n 1 -w 1000 10.###.###.1 | find "TTL=" &...
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Changing the background image of linux mint boot screen

I suppose the boot manager for linux is called grub, how do I change the splash image for it? Update: the methods mentioned don't quite do what I want. This grub is customized for linux mint it ...
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Stuck on Motherboard splash screen

I have a Desktop with config as below ; Windows-7 64bit and Linux Mint 64bit dual boot,4GB DDR2 Ram, Interl DualCore 2.5Ghz Processor,Mercury MotherboardProblemPC stuck in Motherboard splash screen ...
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Motherboard with my company's logo on the boot screen

How can I put my company's logo on the boot screen of my systems? Is it possible? How do the other computer manufacturers like Dell (and other manufacturers too) do it, and from where do they produce ...
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Plymouth splash screen not appearing/delayed in Fedora 25

I upgraded my laptop from Fedora 24 to 25 a while ago, and ever since the splash screen during boot has acted strange: after selecting the kernel in grub, a black screen with a cursor is displayed. ...
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Alternate Windows Chkdsk GUI to prompt to see details

I have a problem with my HD. So I run chkdsk /r/f - But now the verification stoped in 38% for more than 2h. The PC looks normal, responding to keyboard. So, there's a way to alternate this screen to ...
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How do I get rid of words on my BIOS splash screen?

I have a Dell OptiPlex GX620 and on the BIOS splash screen above the Dell logo it says the name of a college and I would like to get rid of that so it’s normal. I have tried to flash the BIOS by ...
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Lenovo Thinkpad T400 not getting past boot screen

so as the title suggests I have got a Lenovo T400 from a friend who wants me to fix it for them. It does not get past the splash screen and whenever I leave it on for about 5 seconds or so it just ...
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How do I change the cosmos picture displayed at startup on Mac OS X?

I want to change the purple cosmos picture that is displayed at startup and login time on Mac OS X.
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How do I fix Linux Mint splash logo and Plymouth settings?

I've recently upgraded a Linux Mint x64 from Petra (16) to Rafaela(17.2), using apt-get dist-upgrade. After finally resolving all dpkg errors, I rebooted. At bootup, instead of showing the Linux ...
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What does windows mean when it says "Taking care of a few things"?

Windows has been telling me for the last 10 minutes that it is either "Taking care of a few things" or "Almost ready": What is going on behind the scenes when it says this, and is there any way of ...
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Can i have a splash screen while loading linux mint

My Linux Mint loads with a black screen. Can I replace this with a splash screen?
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Windows 8.1 takes Too Long for Login Form to Show

One day my little brother had access to my laptop and he hard-shutdown on it. When I boot the laptop, sometimes the Windows 8.1 color is blue with a Rainbow Splash Screen and When I click away the ...
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Windows 7 Splash windows

I am using Windows 7. When I open something e.g. Internet Explorer, it immediately gets opened. Whereas on my friend's system, it opens like it is splashing. I also want the same effects. Do I need to ...
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How can I remove the Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 splash screen?

I have an application running on MS-DOS 6.22, which is installed in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 on a WinVista machine. I would like to eliminate the Virtual PC splash screen that appears when the users ...
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How can I locate where this splash screen is stored on my computer? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I remove the Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 splash screen? This is the splash screen that appears when I fire up Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 on my WinVista computer. I don't ...
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Ubuntu purple splash screen with blinking pixels?

I had ubuntu 9.10 I upgraded to 10.04 after solving some problems (freeze at boot). Since then, I don't have the ubuntu's logo showing up when I boot, but a purple screen with some blinking pixels. ...
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Seamless desktop startup

I use Xfce + Compiz + Emerald. When the system starts up I see: Xfce starting up (desktop background, desktop icons, taskbar) Compiz startup (the whole screen goes black and everything rebuilt) ...
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Disable Outlook 2003 splash screen when auto-starting

I want to hide the splash screen of Outlook 2003. I currently have it set to auto-start and hide to icon. Every time I start my computer I see the Outlook splash screen which makes me think that it's ...
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How to set-up a nice splash-screen when logging in on Ubuntu?

I would like to set-up a splash-screen that says "ACCESS GRANTED" shown when I'm logging in into my account on Ubuntu (after GDM). What possibilities do I have? Thanks