WinBootText

WinBootText is a tiny utility for Windows to display custom text on the boot screen. It uses Native API and BootExecute to show messages during boot process.

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Installation

1. Go to releases page and download winboottext.zip file from the latest release
2. Extract the archive to any folder
3. Run install.bat as administrator
4. Reboot the system. If the installation was successful, you will see "Hello from winboottext!" on the boot screen.

Configuration

1. Run config.bat as administrator to open GUI configuration utility
2. Make changes and click "Apply" to update the configuration.

Uninstallation

1. Run uninstall.bat as administrator.

Building

1. Make sure you have Visual Studio and Git installed
2. Open "x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS <version>" from the start menu and navigate to the folder where you want to place winboottext
3. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/ryzhpolsos/winboottext
4. Use build /d to install all dependencies and run first build
5. Use build to re-build winboottext without dependency installation.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.