Those who love to customize everything in Windows will be disappointed to learn that Microsoft will not support customizing the boot screen animation.

Click the "Play" button to see how the boot animation will look like when you turn on your computer. Click the "Apply" button to apply the changes and make your company logo the default animation.

Relatively simple ways to remove Windows 7's floating-color-balls start-screen animation, and supply your own background images for the operating system's log-on screen and desktop.

That means Ebeling started working on the Windows 7 boot animation in August 2008. It leaked to the Web in the form of a 24-second video in December 2008. Then, in February 2009, Microsoft ...