Comments on: Enable Hidden BootScreen in Windows Vista

By: wayne malone

wayne malone — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:56:50 +0000

i did what you said and now screen is black with nothing green power lite is on,but nothing tried starting hitting F8 nothing. hit space bar nothing.it had vista installed over XP and i have none of disk i do have a recovery set of disk for vista Hp computer but i seem to be having with the DVD drive reading them that is why i wanted to restore factory XP.i could not boot up with F8 so i tried msconfi and went throgh step and ended up with black screen

By: panflute

panflute — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:28:18 +0000

DO NOT do this unless you have a separate (not onboard) video card. A lot of the built in cards do not like the aurora screen or do not have enough video memory to display it, or hiccup when it loads. I have tried it on several machines with and without a video card and found this to be the case.

By: sohail20

sohail20 — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:25:17 +0000

lol it works good my rating is 4.0 works great
do the same methos in windows 7 and see that windows 7 bootscreen is just wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: GoS-ExiGo

GoS-ExiGo — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:01:01 +0000

Strange, The hidden boot screen (No Gui Boot) boots my PC faster than the default one.. Is it normal ?

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:48:20 +0000

When i press “No GUI” nd restart vista

it doesnt show the aurora boot screen it shows all this other stuff and codes in a black screen, while my normal boot works fine.

By: TheR

TheR — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:16:06 +0000

If you have a gateway or any computer with startup repair (i.e. Gateway, Some Dells, Alienware, Most high-end computers) the startup repair will insist that windows is damaged and you will be forced to perform a full restore of windows.

By: Zargon0225

Zargon0225 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:36:03 +0000

Stardock has a utility that will do this automatically for you called Bootskin Pro.

http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin

By: jorgen

jorgen — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:59:31 +0000

Damn, i’ve been search how i changed this boot screen.
Have SP1 running no gui option is turned on and have a different picture.

Had to test an utility and stumbled upon that option.
Now I want this on my home pc as well.
Let you know when i (re) find it.

By: dBLOOD

dBLOOD — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:24:00 +0000

Probably that file is in some dll or exe somewhere…
Maybe logonui.exe, or some system file that can be loaded early at boot…

By: WallpaperFreek

WallpaperFreek — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:28:14 +0000

I’m trying to find this image in a jpg or png file so I can use it as a wallpaper…anyone know where I can find this, or how I can possibly get the image from the bootscreen file?

Thanks in advance!