I use a combination of M$ Paint and Adobe Photoshop CS2. Photoshop isn't free but it has a 30 day trial and can make anything you want.

There are also some other icons in the .zip folder I posted on the first page.

Hey i decided to try my hand at this ihave a question tho. On the xv6800 there are 3 screen before the phone is done booting
1 is the initial verizon screen that shows prl etc at the bottom
2nd is a verizon animation which i have changed
3rd is the Win Mobile screen which ive also changed
For some reason after the changes the 1st Verizon screen stays up extra long and the 2nd screen only flashes for 2secs max and then on to my replacement WM bootscreen
Overall booting only takes a lil longer but the duration of the 1st 2 screens has changed
Did anything similar happen to you
Replacement animation & WM bootscreen replacement
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/672...startupwx5.gif http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/3...ehead96cb5.png

I don't have an animation on mine so I am unable at this point to readily troubleshoot onhand. There might be a registry edit that needs to be made to extend/shorten the boot screens since there may be a animated startup load time. I don't know where they are located as of now but I will search.

If anyone else knows:

1. If the edits for the boot screens are in the registry...?
2. If the boot edits ARE in the registry, where they might be...?

I do know that on mine the first screen is the second longest, the second screen is the shortest, and the third is the longest.

The Verizon animation was the longest duration as it was a whole animation
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4...startupbs2.gif
Now its the shortest not even 2 secs long
I really dont care that its short. Im more annoyed with the fact that the 1st static white Verizon screen is shown for so long because thats the only one i havent changed

What were the settings when you created the .gif? I experimented with .gifs a while back so I am very rusty...

Was there any attributes to the .gif that represented a specific duration?

I dont quite get the part on the animation

does the welcomehead.96.gif have to be present already in order to get an animation to play ???

I found the welcomehead.96.png but not sure what to do or even if I can

I did not have any animations and so I therefore replaced my welcomehead.96.png with another .png. Unless there is a registry edit to modify that will allow for a welcomehead.96.gif instead of a welcomehead.96.png, you will have to replace like file types with the same type.

.gif for .gif, .png for .png...

I will look into a possible registry edit to allow this.

Welcomehead.96.png is the Windows Mobile bootscreen
On my Verizon device when booting there is a Vzw animation before the WM bootscreen named VZWStartup.gif
Im not sure if non Verizon devices go thru the same sequence
Or have an animationg at all

My issue with replacing the startup animation is solved
Seems when it loads the gif it plays for the exact amount of frames in the gif and doesnt allow for looping
My animation played for only a short time cuz it was a fast playing 8 frames long as opposed to the slow playing 20 frames of the default
Bootscreens and wallpaper completed next is the theme

Anyone happen to know what screens are used for backgrounds when you go to unlock the screen?

Are speaking of the Slide2Unlock program?

I also want to post my latest creation for my Slide2Unlock screen:

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q.../wallpaper.gif

I also want to remind everyone that the larger the .gif file or size, the more lag and ram Slide2Unlock will use to animate your image...

Lemme ask u this
Do you know of a way to change the icon associated with an .exe
For example the folder with the magnifying glass represents fexplore.exe
I want to change the icon to somethin less queer