The Windows Vista BootScreen is pointless, but Microsoft decided to hide a more visually appealing boot screen that can easily be enabled with very little trouble.
The original Windows Vista Bootscreen is very similar to Windows 2000, and is very bland and boring (you know, with the little catepillar bar scrolling from left-to-right).Did you know that Windows Vista comes with a much better highly visual bootscreen? Did you know how easy it is to enable it? No?
Microsoft may not have enabled this by default in Windows Vista because of potential hardware issues, but that doesn’t make sense because the minimum video card requirements to even run Windows Vista should handle the new bootscreen without any problem. In either case, here is how to make Windows Vista look that much cooler with the “Aurora” bootscreen.
Here is how you can enable the Aurora Boot Screen in Windows Vista:
- Press the Windows button, type msconfig and press Enter.
- If Windows Vista User Account Control(UAC) prompts you to allow the action, click on Continue.
- In the “System Configuration” window, click on the Boot tab.
- Select your Windows Vista installation and under “Boot options”, check “No GUI boot”.
- Press OK.
- In the dialog that appears, check “Don’t show this message again”, and then click on Restart.
- Your computer will now reboot, and you will see the Aurora boot screen with text that says “Starting Windows Vista”.
Note: You may get a Windows Defender error on the next Windows Vista startup. You can enable the system config utility using the tray icon and this error will go away.
Instead of the animated Windows Vista startup background, you can enable the Aurora background image by enabling the quiet boot. You can enable quiet boot in Windows Vista via the bcdedit utility, as the following command shows. You must run it from an elevated command prompt (Start-> cmd-> Run as Administrator):
C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit /set quietboot 1
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