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XP bootscreen on Windows 10

Posted: 12 Jan 2024, 04:20
by the_r3dacted
This is more of a curiosity than a real thing. It should be possible with graphicsmodedisabled 1 and editing the Vista fallback, however there may be a XP bootscreen hidden inside 10 that appears in very rare circumstances. I've only found two references to this ever happening.

First was the result of a friend of a friend having a broken GPU. (5700XT iirc) I'm not sure what happened to the messages (I can't find them), but I went over what the Vista bootscreen looked like and they confirmed that it was the XP bootscreen. This is all I really have to prove that this happened.

The second reference is:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220323220536/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-xp-logo-is-getting-displayed-while-booting/cb6b0951-53cc-4eeb-8e94-1de528f12b80

I think this is either a fallback if the Vista bootscreen doesn't work, or maybe some sort of fallback when the 10 bootscreen doesn't work, but it's not broken enough to use the Vista bootscreen. Not completely sure, but I doubt it would come before the Vista screen. I would also be curious where the assets are for this bootscreen (and the Vista one too, maybe they're even together in the same file idk).

XP bootscreen on Windows 10

Posted: 08 Apr 2024, 21:02
by OwnedByWuigi
K4sum1 wrote: 12 Jan 2024, 04:20 This is more of a curiosity than a real thing. It should be possible with graphicsmodedisabled 1 and editing the Vista fallback, however there may be a XP bootscreen hidden inside 10 that appears in very rare circumstances. I've only found two references to this ever happening.

First was the result of a friend of a friend having a broken GPU. (5700XT iirc) I'm not sure what happened to the messages (I can't find them), but I went over what the Vista bootscreen looked like and they confirmed that it was the XP bootscreen. This is all I really have to prove that this happened.

The second reference is:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220323220536/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-xp-logo-is-getting-displayed-while-booting/cb6b0951-53cc-4eeb-8e94-1de528f12b80

I think this is either a fallback if the Vista bootscreen doesn't work, or maybe some sort of fallback when the 10 bootscreen doesn't work, but it's not broken enough to use the Vista bootscreen. Not completely sure, but I doubt it would come before the Vista screen. I would also be curious where the assets are for this bootscreen (and the Vista one too, maybe they're even together in the same file idk).
It is most likely either in NTOSKRNL or bootvid.dll, as that was where it was in XP

XP bootscreen on Windows 10

Posted: 09 Apr 2024, 02:04
by the_r3dacted
Unless Resource Hacker doesn't see it, it doesn't seem to be there.

XP bootscreen on Windows 10

Posted: 02 Dec 2025, 14:16
by OwnedByWuigi
as on this: I GOT IT WORKING!!

BUT

It needs a combo of Test Mode, nointegritychecks, and "Disable driver signing" in the F8 menu.

Will post a guide on this for Vista, 7 aswell as 8+

XP bootscreen on Windows 10

Posted: 02 Dec 2025, 14:34
by teknixstuff

XP bootscreen on Windows 10

Posted: 02 Dec 2025, 19:33
by xYannikx
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Windows 7 x64

XP bootscreen on Windows 10

Posted: 02 Dec 2025, 20:26
by Duke
A must have! :mrgreen: