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Boot Screen

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In stead of the default Windows Server 2008 R2 boot screen you can also use the one of Windows 7. This is done by just extracting the bootres.dll and bootres.dll.mui from the Windows 7 x64 Retail MSDN dvd and placing them in respectively the System32 and System32\en-US folder.

1. Download bootres.zip (2.10MB) from Rapidshare, Megaupload or 4Shared.

2. Extract the .zip to a folder and run install(.cmd)
Extract the archive and install using install.cmd

3. Enjoy your Windows 7 boot screen!
Windows 7 logo boot screen on Windows Server 2008 R2

 

Continue to get the colorful Windows 7 logon screen…

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4 comments so far...

  • user Said on August 18th, 2009 at 11:30 am:

    sorry, but i have trouble reverting it back to original w08r2 boot screen, could somebody help me?

    Arris: Just by removing the %SystemRoot%\System32\bootres.dll and %SystemRoot%\System32\en-US\bootres.dll.mui files you should have the original boot screen back.

  • Raul Cloud Said on September 16th, 2009 at 12:54 am:

    User, just go to Windows\System32 and delete bootres.dll and go to System32\en-us and delete bootres.dll.mui.

  • Amplificator Said on February 15th, 2010 at 6:57 pm:

    This doesn’t work.
    I read somewhere that you are supposed to patch Winload.exe too in order for this to work. Simply placing bootres.dll and bootres.dll.mui doesn’t seem to work.

    Arris: In fact it does work. It has already been downloaded hundreds of times and as you can see there are no complaints that it doesn’t work! :)

  • Amplificator Said on February 16th, 2010 at 7:29 pm:

    Can you suggest another aproach to getting it working?

    I’m running the evaluation of 2008 R2 Datacenter with latest upadtes from WIndows Update.

    Arris: If you are booting/running Windows Server 2008 with another language than en-US which you can verify by looking at the locale value when running bcdedit without any parameters in a Command Prompt, you need to place the bootres.dll.mui file manually into %SystemRoot%\System32\nl-NL (replace nl-NL with your locale). Good luck!

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