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Duncan Edwards
Duncan Edwards

Reputation: 1568

Standard sizes for Windows splash screens

Is there a standard splash screen size or set of guidelines for the size of a splash screen? This is for a music-playing application for XP and Vista.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 18691

Answers (4)

IvanRF
IvanRF

Reputation: 7265

I found this Microsoft article in the UX guidelines for Windows apps: Guidelines for splash screens.

It mentions this sizes:

Scale   Image size (pixels)

1x      620 x 300

1.4x    868 x 420

1.8x    1116 x 540

Upvotes: 5

Dennis
Dennis

Reputation: 179

I use my splash screen as my login window. I just use 550X400 for my splash screen size as that is the size of standard wizards.

Upvotes: 2

Joey
Joey

Reputation: 354576

The Windows User Experience Guidelines in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511284.aspx only state that you shouldn't use splash screens, except for unusually long-loading applications. A splash screen size that doesn't get into the user's way too much (i. e. don't cover the whole screen, which should still hold true if the user has a lower screen resolution that the developer :)) should therefore be sufficient, if it is necessary at all.

Upvotes: 7

Richard
Richard

Reputation: 109025

Purely based on experience: No.

Not even from MS applications, e.g. Office and Visual Studio have different sizes (and the VS one grows as more components are added).

Upvotes: 4

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