diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Common/MediaBrowser.Common.csproj b/MediaBrowser.Common/MediaBrowser.Common.csproj
index f7ccc17786..bd5e8b7332 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Common/MediaBrowser.Common.csproj
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Common/MediaBrowser.Common.csproj
@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@
     <Compile Include="Events\GenericItemEventArgs.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Net\Handlers\StaticFileHandler.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Net\MimeTypes.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="Properties\Resources.Designer.cs">
+      <AutoGen>True</AutoGen>
+      <DesignTime>True</DesignTime>
+      <DependentUpon>Resources.resx</DependentUpon>
+    </Compile>
     <Compile Include="Serialization\JsonSerializer.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Kernel\BaseKernel.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Kernel\KernelContext.cs" />
@@ -104,7 +109,15 @@
       <Generator>MSBuild:Compile</Generator>
     </Page>
   </ItemGroup>
-  <ItemGroup />
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <EmbeddedResource Include="Properties\Resources.resx">
+      <Generator>ResXFileCodeGenerator</Generator>
+      <LastGenOutput>Resources.Designer.cs</LastGenOutput>
+    </EmbeddedResource>
+  </ItemGroup>
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <Resource Include="Resources\mblogo1000.png" />
+  </ItemGroup>
   <Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
   <!-- To modify your build process, add your task inside one of the targets below and uncomment it. 
        Other similar extension points exist, see Microsoft.Common.targets.
diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Common/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs b/MediaBrowser.Common/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..727c195d26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Common/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// <auto-generated>
+//     This code was generated by a tool.
+//     Runtime Version:4.0.30319.17626
+//
+//     Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if
+//     the code is regenerated.
+// </auto-generated>
+//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+namespace MediaBrowser.Common.Properties {
+    using System;
+    
+    
+    /// <summary>
+    ///   A strongly-typed resource class, for looking up localized strings, etc.
+    /// </summary>
+    // This class was auto-generated by the StronglyTypedResourceBuilder
+    // class via a tool like ResGen or Visual Studio.
+    // To add or remove a member, edit your .ResX file then rerun ResGen
+    // with the /str option, or rebuild your VS project.
+    [global::System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.Resources.Tools.StronglyTypedResourceBuilder", "4.0.0.0")]
+    [global::System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCodeAttribute()]
+    [global::System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CompilerGeneratedAttribute()]
+    internal class Resources {
+        
+        private static global::System.Resources.ResourceManager resourceMan;
+        
+        private static global::System.Globalization.CultureInfo resourceCulture;
+        
+        [global::System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessageAttribute("Microsoft.Performance", "CA1811:AvoidUncalledPrivateCode")]
+        internal Resources() {
+        }
+        
+        /// <summary>
+        ///   Returns the cached ResourceManager instance used by this class.
+        /// </summary>
+        [global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
+        internal static global::System.Resources.ResourceManager ResourceManager {
+            get {
+                if (object.ReferenceEquals(resourceMan, null)) {
+                    global::System.Resources.ResourceManager temp = new global::System.Resources.ResourceManager("MediaBrowser.Common.Properties.Resources", typeof(Resources).Assembly);
+                    resourceMan = temp;
+                }
+                return resourceMan;
+            }
+        }
+        
+        /// <summary>
+        ///   Overrides the current thread's CurrentUICulture property for all
+        ///   resource lookups using this strongly typed resource class.
+        /// </summary>
+        [global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
+        internal static global::System.Globalization.CultureInfo Culture {
+            get {
+                return resourceCulture;
+            }
+            set {
+                resourceCulture = value;
+            }
+        }
+        
+        /// <summary>
+        ///   Looks up a localized resource of type System.Drawing.Bitmap.
+        /// </summary>
+        internal static System.Drawing.Bitmap mblogo1000 {
+            get {
+                object obj = ResourceManager.GetObject("mblogo1000", resourceCulture);
+                return ((System.Drawing.Bitmap)(obj));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Common/Properties/Resources.resx b/MediaBrowser.Common/Properties/Resources.resx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..23dea88cb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Common/Properties/Resources.resx
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<root>
+  <!-- 
+    Microsoft ResX Schema 
+    
+    Version 2.0
+    
+    The primary goals of this format is to allow a simple XML format 
+    that is mostly human readable. The generation and parsing of the 
+    various data types are done through the TypeConverter classes 
+    associated with the data types.
+    
+    Example:
+    
+    ... ado.net/XML headers & schema ...
+    <resheader name="resmimetype">text/microsoft-resx</resheader>
+    <resheader name="version">2.0</resheader>
+    <resheader name="reader">System.Resources.ResXResourceReader, System.Windows.Forms, ...</resheader>
+    <resheader name="writer">System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, ...</resheader>
+    <data name="Name1"><value>this is my long string</value><comment>this is a comment</comment></data>
+    <data name="Color1" type="System.Drawing.Color, System.Drawing">Blue</data>
+    <data name="Bitmap1" mimetype="application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64">
+        <value>[base64 mime encoded serialized .NET Framework object]</value>
+    </data>
+    <data name="Icon1" type="System.Drawing.Icon, System.Drawing" mimetype="application/x-microsoft.net.object.bytearray.base64">
+        <value>[base64 mime encoded string representing a byte array form of the .NET Framework object]</value>
+        <comment>This is a comment</comment>
+    </data>
+                
+    There are any number of "resheader" rows that contain simple 
+    name/value pairs.
+    
+    Each data row contains a name, and value. The row also contains a 
+    type or mimetype. Type corresponds to a .NET class that support 
+    text/value conversion through the TypeConverter architecture. 
+    Classes that don't support this are serialized and stored with the 
+    mimetype set.
+    
+    The mimetype is used for serialized objects, and tells the 
+    ResXResourceReader how to depersist the object. This is currently not 
+    extensible. For a given mimetype the value must be set accordingly:
+    
+    Note - application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64 is the format 
+    that the ResXResourceWriter will generate, however the reader can 
+    read any of the formats listed below.
+    
+    mimetype: application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64
+    value   : The object must be serialized with 
+            : System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter
+            : and then encoded with base64 encoding.
+    
+    mimetype: application/x-microsoft.net.object.soap.base64
+    value   : The object must be serialized with 
+            : System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter
+            : and then encoded with base64 encoding.
+
+    mimetype: application/x-microsoft.net.object.bytearray.base64
+    value   : The object must be serialized into a byte array 
+            : using a System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter
+            : and then encoded with base64 encoding.
+    -->
+  <xsd:schema id="root" xmlns="" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
+    <xsd:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" />
+    <xsd:element name="root" msdata:IsDataSet="true">
+      <xsd:complexType>
+        <xsd:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
+          <xsd:element name="metadata">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:sequence>
+                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" />
+              </xsd:sequence>
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" use="required" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute ref="xml:space" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+          <xsd:element name="assembly">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:attribute name="alias" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+          <xsd:element name="data">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:sequence>
+                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
+                <xsd:element name="comment" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="2" />
+              </xsd:sequence>
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" msdata:Ordinal="3" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" msdata:Ordinal="4" />
+              <xsd:attribute ref="xml:space" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+          <xsd:element name="resheader">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:sequence>
+                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
+              </xsd:sequence>
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+        </xsd:choice>
+      </xsd:complexType>
+    </xsd:element>
+  </xsd:schema>
+  <resheader name="resmimetype">
+    <value>text/microsoft-resx</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <resheader name="version">
+    <value>2.0</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <resheader name="reader">
+    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceReader, System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <resheader name="writer">
+    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <assembly alias="System.Windows.Forms" name="System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
+  <data name="mblogo1000" type="System.Resources.ResXFileRef, System.Windows.Forms">
+    <value>..\Resources\mblogo1000.png;System.Drawing.Bitmap, System.Drawing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a</value>
+  </data>
+</root>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Common/Resources/mblogo1000.png b/MediaBrowser.Common/Resources/mblogo1000.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a6ae07abfb
Binary files /dev/null and b/MediaBrowser.Common/Resources/mblogo1000.png differ
diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Common/UI/Splash.xaml b/MediaBrowser.Common/UI/Splash.xaml
index 9bf1c8364c..3927017f9c 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Common/UI/Splash.xaml
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Common/UI/Splash.xaml
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 <Window x:Class="MediaBrowser.Common.UI.Splash"
         xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
         xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
-        Title="SplashScreen" Height="300" Width="600" ShowInTaskbar="False" ResizeMode="NoResize" WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen"
-        WindowState="Normal" WindowStyle="None" Background="White" AllowsTransparency="True">
-    <Grid>
-        
+        Title="SplashScreen" Height="346" Width="600" ShowInTaskbar="False" ResizeMode="NoResize" WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen"
+        WindowState="Normal" WindowStyle="SingleBorderWindow" Background="Black">
+    <Grid Name="splashGrid">
+        <Image HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="213" Margin="10,10,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="574" Source="/MediaBrowser.Common;component/Resources/mblogo1000.png" Stretch="Fill"/>
+        <ProgressBar Name="pbProgress" Minimum="0" Maximum="100" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="24" Margin="10,242,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="574"/>
+        <Label Name="lblProgress" Content="Label" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="10,282,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="574" Foreground="White"/>
     </Grid>
 </Window>
diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Common/UI/Splash.xaml.cs b/MediaBrowser.Common/UI/Splash.xaml.cs
index e136baa191..6d1d313e81 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Common/UI/Splash.xaml.cs
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Common/UI/Splash.xaml.cs
@@ -21,9 +21,18 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Common.UI
     /// </summary>
     public partial class Splash : Window
     {
-        public Splash(IProgress<TaskProgress> progress)
+
+        public Splash(Progress<TaskProgress> progress)
         {
             InitializeComponent();
+            
+            progress.ProgressChanged += progress_ProgressChanged;
+        }
+
+        void progress_ProgressChanged(object sender, TaskProgress e)
+        {
+            this.lblProgress.Content = e.Description;
+            this.pbProgress.Value = (double)e.PercentComplete;
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/MediaBrowser.sln b/MediaBrowser.sln
index b376858127..0c659f473d 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.sln
+++ b/MediaBrowser.sln
@@ -76,7 +76,4 @@ Global
 	GlobalSection(SolutionProperties) = preSolution
 		HideSolutionNode = FALSE
 	EndGlobalSection
-	GlobalSection(Performance) = preSolution
-		HasPerformanceSessions = true
-	EndGlobalSection
 EndGlobal