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Windows Vista tips & tricks #2: Change that blank bootscreen

Gill Cleeren

Vista | Vista Tricks

November 22, 2006

In Vista, there appears to be no more bootscreen. This makes the boot times shorter, according to Microsoft. I must admin, my new PC is very fast at booting, much faster than the XP.
Should you however want to enable the bootscreen anyhow, here's how...

1. Press Win+R, type msconfig and press Enter.
2. In the "System Configuration" window, click on the Boot tab.
3. Select your Windows Vista installation and under "Boot options", check "No GUI boot". Now click OK
4. Now, a dialog will appear. Check "Don’t show this message again", and then click on Restart.
5. Your computer will now reboot, and you will see the Aurora boot screen with text that says "Starting Windows Vista".
Tada!

Posted on: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 9:28:58 PM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00) | Comments [1]

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:43:32 AM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

I had a VERY bad experience with this, Vista got to the new bootscreen but then it gave me a brief flash of a blue screen I couldn't read. Then it went to a windows error recovery screen, one option to repair the startup files doesn't do anything and the boot normal option causes it to reboot. I probably have a boot sector virus or something. I couldn't even boot my recovery disks! The only way to get out of it was to F8 and select the last known good configuration. It's so weird that such a small setting would almost kill my laptop. It could just be that my NVIDIA graphics card doesn't like the "No Gui Boot" option. I hope everyone has been luck with this than me.

Christie

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