No Escape!

Here's a neat trick for those of you with Windows 95 or 98 machines.  You can customize the tab page you see when you RIGHT click on "My Computer" (or whatever you've renamed your computer) to look something like (minus the blue highlights):

It's easy to add a picture, text and a support button pop-up.  You need to create 2 files for this, one a text file saved as oeminfo.ini and the other a BMP picture file saved as oemlogo.bmp.  If you already have these files, backup your copies and exchange them with these:

Here's the text you need to copy into oeminfo.ini:

You can call your Manufactuer and Model anything you want, but you must use those terms.  You can put in any text surrounded by quotes under [Support Information].  Now, save the file to your C:\windows\system directory as  oeminfo.ini.

Next, you need a picture of size 150x113.  Larger or smaller sized pictures will be cropped to fit on the fly, but may be cut off if not close to the 150x113 specification.  Any picture in bmp format will do, saved to your C:\windows\system directory as  oemlogo.bmp.

I've provided a few samples below in JPG format which will need to be converted by you to a BMP type file.  How to do this is beyond the scope of this discussion, but can be obtained with any decent image editor like the great freeware editor IrFanView32.

Have fun.  Questions? Here's my email.

Now, the examples:

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