Device Drivers; Net Framework; Changing The Startup Logo - Eurotech Apollo Quick Start Manual

APOLLO Windows XP Embedded Quickstart

Device drivers

As a general rule, it should be possible to install any device driver in Windows XP
Embedded that is available for Windows XP Professional. The same technique for
installing the driver in Windows XP Professional will also usually work under Windows
XP Embedded.
To install the device driver, follow the device manufacturer's instructions for installing
the device under Windows XP Professional.
Many of the base system drivers are not included in the Standard XPe
image, to preserve disk space. If you try to install a device, which the
manufacturer states is natively supported by Windows XP, or relies on a
base Windows XP component, Windows XP Embedded may not recognise
it. The missing driver files can often be copied from a standard Windows XP
Professional SP2 installation on another computer.

.NET framework

Microsoft's .NET Framework v2.0 is included in the StandardXPe image. To develop
.NET applications that run on this image, use Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005, which
supports application development for .NET Framework v2.0.
To perform remote debugging with applications that require the .NET Framework,
additional remote debugging tools must be installed on the APOLLO. These tools
require approximately 50MB of disk space, so are not installed by default. For an
explanation of the installation procedure, see
Studio .NET

Changing the startup logo

The Windows XP Embedded image supplied with this Development Kit includes a
custom startup logo, which appears between the BIOS screen and the Microsoft
Windows XP splash screen on startup. This logo can be changed to a custom image of
your own, and can also be set to replace the Microsoft Windows splash screen if you
want it to stay on the screen for longer.
To change the logo, you must replace the file called boot.bmp in the C:\Windows
folder of the flash disk. Your new logo must comply with the following rules:
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The image size must be exactly 640 x 480.
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The colour depth must be 4bit (16 colours).
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The file must be in the Windows Bitmap (BMP) format. If you wish to save disk
space, an RLE encoded BMP is recommended.
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