Green into Blue

Has anyone noticed that, after installing the XP SP2, the green progress bar while Windows is loading has become blue?
PS: I've installed the SP2 for IT professionals and developers at the Download.com.

hmmmm. Mines Blue and I don't have SP2.

Hmmmm! very strange.
But I am happy that someone has the blue loading bar, too. Very comforting.:)

this is a wild guess but is it that xp home was/is green
and xp pro is blue (like the retail packaging)
and with sp2 we will all be blue?

ahh! haaa!
I have the XP home edition: the Windows moving bar was green with my SP1.
Now it is blue with my SP2.
:confused:

nganvu

same here xp home

maybe steve r jones has xp pro?

"I have the XP home edition: the Windows moving bar was green with my SP1.
Now it is blue with my SP2."


Ditto for me...:)

Spike177 and Horatio

Good to hear from you. So ! everything is OK.:)

Just finished doing the SP2 deal and we're still blue.

Lost my XP Media Center splash screen....

Steve,

Good to hear, all of us are blue :D

I hope you don't have any problem fixing your XP Media Center.

and you probably noticed along with the change to blue it doesnt say xp home anymore it just says xp

Good catch, Frebo.
I din't, but I do now.
I do miss the fresh green grass color of the old XP home edition.
I wish MS gave us the option to choose.
Oh, well !

One of the things I liked about Win98 was that I could build my own theme. I preferred the progress bar to be red to set it off...

I noticed some time ago that the xp home bar was green and the xp pro bar was blue...I have both. I never really paid any attention to it. I just figured MS wanted to distinguish between the two that way. Not sure why when one said home and the other pro...seems kind of redundant to me, but then again, it is M$.

Maybe they finally saw the redundancy and decided to do something about it.

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Originally posted by Ridgerunr
One of the things I liked about Win98 was that I could build my own theme. I preferred the progress bar to be red to set it off...

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Ya can with XP too :)

You can make or download pre-built boot screens, welcome screens and/or themes etc, XP is much more customisable than 9X ever was but with XP some things take more time to figure out...

I include my favourite Welcome Screen and Theme (including wallpaper) on the Windows XP CD so that XP uses it as default after a clean install.

The Themes and Welcome Screens are the same for all versions of XP so i use them because they are convienient... But i haven't bothered with Boot Screens much yet because they are OS version dependent, and I'm also now waiting to see some nice ones compatible with SP2 before i stick it on my XP install CD, I've not had much joy from making my own yet :D.

Regards :)

Speaking of Colors. I haven't had a use for or tried the following:

Change color of BSOD

Edit the SYSTEM.INI file in the Windows directory:

In the [386Enh] add the entries:

MessageTextCOLOR=X
MessageBackCOLOR=X

Where X is replace by the number for each of the following colours:

Black = 0, Blue = 1, Green = 2, Cyan = 3, Red = 4, Magenta = 5, Yellow/Brown = 6
White = 7, Grey = 8, Bright Blue = 9, Bright Green = A, Bright Cyan = B, Bright Red = C
Bright Magenta = D, Bright Yellow = E, Bright White = F

Well, you could only change it to black or brown.:D

testing,

"Green...Green....Grass...of....Hooome" = Tom Jones :D

Green before SP2. Blue after SP2 here too. Blue is blue. KB

Yep, Home is green and Pro is blue. But as Frebo pointed out, when you install SP2 both Home and Pro have the same boot screen, no 'Home' or 'Pro', and both have blue bars.

Guess MS was in such a rush (like normal) to get this out that they thought something like that didnt matter ;)