I had a lot of trouble finding the abortscreen.png file even though I searched google for ages. In the end I just searched my whole PC for it and found it here:

C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Data Realms\Cortex Command

On my x64 Windows 7 Machine

My guess is x32 OS would use something like:

C:\Users\jimbo8098\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Data Realms\Cortex Command

instead. Just helping out people who might be wondering where it got saved to.

-Jimbo8098

well, uh...
A) it should be AbortScreen.bmp
B) it should just be in the Cortex Command main directory.

If your abortscreen.bmp is in the VirtualStore like that then you really should move your Cortex Command out of Program Files and into its own directory on C:. Windows cripples application permissions in the Program Files directory in such a way that is problematic for Cortex Command.

Once you have moved your Cortex Command directory out of Program Files, when the abortscreen.bmp is created on a mod related crash during load time, it will properly be in the root Cortex Command directory as Urch suggested it should be, which unsurprisingly makes it very easy to find.

hahaha thanks for pointing that out there , edited title.

as for your second point IDK why its not in root directory. I used to have CC in a completely seperate drive ( a SATA drive) It stays on the C: because it is now the SATA drive and my other drive is IDE , for video , pictures and all that other stuff.