Enable Vista's Boot Screen
By: Arie Slob
Microsoft decided not to enable a more visually appealing boot screen in an effort to reduce the time it needs to start Windows Vista. But with today's fast computers, enabling a more appealing boot screen will probably not add much time to Vista's startup time (if any).
Microsoft did include a more visually appealing boot screen (Figure) and it can be enabled with little trouble:
The easiest way to get to it is to type msconfig in Vista's Start Search box, which will place msconfig.exe near the top of Vista's Start Menu.
- Double click msconfig.exe to start it, and select the Boot tab
- Check the option No GUI boot under Boot options
- Hit Apply & reboot
To change back to the 'simple' boot screen, just reverse the above.
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