This article includes a tech note on how to customize the PGP BootGuard screen. Beginning in version 9.7 of PGP Desktop and 2.7 PGP Universal Server, administrators in a PGP Universal-managed environment can configure the PGP Whole Disk Encryption boot screen to display the text and graphics of their choice.


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The custom background images must be created according to the following specifications:
 

• XPM files only.
• Image size of 640 by 480.
• Palette of 15 colors only, including black (one color is reserved for fonts). You do not have to use all 15 colors in the image.
• 8-bit RGB only (cannot be 16-bit RGB). You can verify you are using 8 bit by looking at the XPM header using a text editor: 8-bit values appear as #285A83 (one hex triplet), 16-bit values appear as #28285A5A8383 (two hex triplets).
• The compressed .xpm file must not exceeed 32k.