Change Splash Screen of Eclipse

A splash screen is the screen that some software show when started while it is doing some loading in the background. Now, I did some research on changing the splash screen for the Eclipse IDE, which I use quite frequently.

First step is to go to the "plugins" folder of your Eclipse installation.
Inside that look for a folder name that starts like "org.eclipse.platform_x.x..."
There you should be able to see a file called "splash.bmp".

All you need to do now is take a backup of it and create an image of the same size and place it in the same location. The next time you start your Eclipse, you can see this take effect.