i've sure i'm not the only one who is aware that it must be possible to change the resolution of the boot screen (the one with the loading bar that you see for about 5-10 seconds before XP boots). is ...

You’re not actually stuck with the screen resolution setting your Windows PC came with. In addition to tons of other device personalization options, screen resolutions are customizable on Windows PCs.

On XP, it seems that I can consistently get toolbars to lose icons upon screen resolution changes. The resolution change most likely to cause this behavior is changing from 640x480x32bit to ...