Não suportado
We know many of you might be asking if you could include your own animation or customize this sequence. This is not something we will support in Windows 7. [...]
The reasons for this should be pretty clear, which is that we cannot guarantee the security of the system to allow for arbitrary elements to be loaded into memory at boot time. In the early stages of starting Windows, the system needs to be locked down and execute along a very carefully monitored and known state as tools such as firewalls and anti-virus checking are not yet available to secure the system. And of course, even though we’re sure everyone would follow the requirements around image size, content, etc. due to performance we would not want to build in all the code necessary to guarantee that all third parties would be doing so.
Contrato de licença do usuário final
Veja um trecho do EULA do Windows 7 SP1:
SCOPE OF LICENSE. The software is licensed, not sold. This agreement only gives you some rights to use the features included in the software edition you licensed. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you may use the software only as expressly permitted in this agreement. In doing so, you must comply with any technical limitations in the software that only allow you to use it in certain ways. You may not
- work around any technical limitations in the software;
O texto completo pode ser encontrado na pasta sources\license
da mídia de configuração ou na pasta C:\Windows\System32\<languageCode>\Licenses
, uma vez instalada.