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BOOTLEG INFOBOX. Anything that is optional will be marked as such, otherwise it is mandatory. (Unless it's the archive addition date, in which case, it has not been tracked extensively, only very recently. If you can't find the exact date, ask others about it, otherwise specify "Unknown" in the archiveadd value.)
[[User:Yellows111|Yellows111]] ([[User talk:Yellows111|talk]]) 13:38, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
== How
All screenshots '''must''' be captured in PNG format, taken from a VM screen (doesn't matter how you get a VM running) and if the screenshot is taken from a hypervisor, be cropped to just the VM screen (for obvious reasons).
You can use
=== Labelling your screenshots and formatting it in its own gallery ===
As for labeling your screenshots, and good places to look for capturing, this is how to label your screenshots:
<pre>(Original OS
Example:
And as for places to look, here are a few good places to look:
You must order the screenshots in the gallery in the way that the portions down below are ordered. You can only take one of each screenshot, and if there are multiple sections of one portion, it doesn't exclude it from capture. The Desktop, Start Menu, and Demo portions must always be included.▼
▲You must order the screenshots in the gallery in the way that the portions down below are ordered. You can only take one of each screenshot, and if there are multiple sections of one portion, it doesn't exclude it from capture.
; Text-mode setup
; Graphical setup▼
; Boot screen▼
; OOBE (''if it exists, some bootlegs omit this'')
; Post-
; Desktop (
; Demo (''a Demo portion involves showcasing various system and user information, where there will usually be changes. the list of the programs involved will be included in its own listing'')
: System Properties
: Support Information (''if it exists, then include it'')
: About Windows
: Run dialog (''if it's changed'')
: Autorun splash, and post-exit screens (''if any'')
: The WPI installation screen
; A picture of an Explorer window of the CD root or C: drive (''if it has a custom folder background'')
This is the minimum baseline for taking screenshots. You can take screenshots of
▲Pre-boot selector / Boot selector (If it exists)
▲Text-mode setup (Partition screen, Format screen, Copying screen)
▲Graphical setup
▲Boot screen
▲Pre-OOBE (In most bootlegs with stripped OOBEs, this part will almost always be here)
▲Post-OOBE (Login screen)
▲Post-Login (Anything that is set to run on startup, such as a WPI, post-install script, or other such)
▲Desktop (If any reboots are required (which is the case most of the time in bootlegs with WPIs), then that makes it a Desktop on First Boot portion, otherwise it's just a Desktop portion)
▲Start Menu (The start menu of the default theme)
▲Autorun (If the bootleg has a custom one)
▲WPI (If the bootleg has one)
▲This is the baseline for taking screenshots. You can take screenshots of whatever you want, as long as you have taken screenshots of these portions.
=== Some other things you need to know ===
* Don't forget to specify the default theme's name when you're captioning the start menu image. You can find it by simply opening the
* If you're reviewing a Windows Vista+ bootleg, if the System Properties window has changed branding, and you have the About Windows dialolg open, move the About Windows dialog to the left and the System Properties window to the right. This will make sure all of the branding will be shown, otherwise the About Windows dialog will cover part of it and not show everything.
=== Structure of a themes gallery ===
What is also important to capture are the themes of a bootleg, as there are many bootlegs with many themes (and we do mean many, there are known bootlegs with more than 100 themes), so this is how to deal with it:
You must take a screenshot of the theme by applying the theme in the theme selector
As for labeling it, you do it like this: <code>(
As for captioning it in the gallery, you do it like this: <code>(Theme name) theme</code>. You can also append the internal theme name if the theme selector's name doesn't accurately represent what it is, but it takes more time to caption in bulk.
Screenshot examples:
--[[User:Undefishin|Undefishin]] ([[User talk:Undefishin|talk]]) 09:00, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
== How categories should be ordered ==
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