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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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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 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 rid of the visual image (or change it) - it's not 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 initialization…
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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 splash has a forever-loading Please…
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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 boot up the DOS virtual hard disk. I have made as…
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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 have some settings for that? Secondly when she…
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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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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. I didn't care much about it... but today my…
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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. After a while, the tail end of the splash screen…
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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 getting it to display a console output instead of…
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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 downloading the BIOS update and running it but it…
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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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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) Session restore (starting the applications I used when…
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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 seems, (or something like that). It uses a graphical…
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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-2). I use a custom kernel boot logo. Is it…
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