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Haunt Your PXE Menu with a Halloween Theme

Haunt Your PXE Menu with a Halloween Theme
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Submitted by Nelo on 8 October, 2008 - 10:51.

A change to the PXEManager.ini allows a PXE menu theme.

To change the default PXE them open the PXEManager.ini with your favorite text editor and change the following:

  1. Stop the PXEManager service.
  2. Open PXEManager.ini with notepad
  3. Under the [PXEConfig] section change PxeSrvBoot="0,0" to PxeSrvBoot="3,96"
  4. Save the changes. Close the file.
  5. Start the PXEManager service.

Now the next time PXE comes up on initial deployment a PXE Halloween theme is displayed.

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What does it look like?

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Submitted by setral on 9 October, 2008 - 08:13.

I'm curious as to what it looks like, I'm tempted to do it myself but I can't right now, Dev is unavailable and I'm definately not messing with production :)

Capture a screenshot with VMWare? Please? :D

I might give a whirl at

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Submitted by Tyrson on 12 October, 2008 - 18:32.

I might give a whirl at work this week, after hours. If I do, I'll make a screeny. In case I don't, I found an image of a thanksgiving themed PXE menu:

http://juice.altiris.com/download/837/pxe-menu-hap...

RE: I might give a whirl at

Submitted by Nelo on 13 October, 2008 - 10:32.

A word of caution. The Altiris juice article you reference applies to DS versions prior to 6.9.

--nelo