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.
Questions tagged [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)
Deniz Zoeteman
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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…
Nori
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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…
Krumelur
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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…
user2678408
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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…
Joe R.
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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…
Asma Wakeel
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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.
Rabskatran
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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…
Chris Le Sueur
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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…
josh
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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?
Khaleel
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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…
vbence
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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 screen from uboot, this works quite well, but…
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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…
hasen
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