TURN ON WINDOWS VISTA’S HIDDEN BOOT SCREEN

If you don’t want to go to the trouble of building your own boot screen, butaren’t happy with the default one for Windows Vista, there’s another solution: turn on Windows Vista’s hidden boot screen. It’s called Aurora, because it looks like Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights. To turn it on, run the MSCONFIG utility, and on the Boot tab, select “No GUI boot” and click OK. From now on, you’ll use the hidden Windows Vista boot screen (if you’ve previously replaced the winload.exe.mui file with your own boot screen, you’ll need to restore the original to see the Aurora screen).