Greetings.

I can find lots of threads with "blue screen" issues but none are like this one as far as I could determine. I spent some time searching the forums and the FAQs. If I missed a thread that addresses this issue I APOLOGISE for this new topic.

I use LogonStudio and have had no problems with it until very recently. The problem is nothing crucial, just annoying. The whole idea of using something like LogonStudio is to not see the oem or default screens that COME with the OS.

So, I was using XP Home and I switched to XP Pro. I use the automatic logon since I'm the only person that uses my ancient PC so it goes right to a custom Bootskin graphic and from that to a custom LogonStudio skin. That transition was always seamless before I installed XP Pro. Now, after the Bootskin graphic a blank blue screen flashes up for less than a second before the Logonstudio skin comes up.

Now there's a blank blue bitmap in logonui.exe so I changed that to black using Resource Hacker and a replacer command but that didn't work. Nothing changed.

Theres no blank blue blue bitmap in the ntoskrnl.exe file so I'm not gonna mess with it. I can't figure out why this millisecond blue screen keeps popping up and I'd really like to GET rid of it. I know it's part of the OEM / default boot process but I can't determine its source so I can change it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Even THOUGH it's not a serious problem and doesn't affect the performance of the system in any way that I can discern, it really AGGRAVATES me!