Startup Screens

What it is

You don’t have to stare at the “Welcome to Macintosh” or Mac OS logo during the 20 minutes it takes your Mac to start up. If you place a correctly formatted and named PICT graphics file in your System Folder, you can stare at it, instead, during the startup process. Here are several gorgeous, full-screen, full-color photo images to try out.

What you need

A Macintosh.

Installation summary

Open the SOFTWARE SAMPLER folder on the CD-ROM. Open the Startup Screens folder. Open one of the folders inside (Earth from Space, for example). Drag the file called StartupScreen into your System Folder. Restart your Mac.

Notes and credits

Thanks to Bob Nichols for Earth from Space, and Mark H. Delfs for the Mac-specific screens.