WANNA KNOW: Why there is no Bootscreen in VISTA ?

[Vishal Gupta]

During the Windows Vista beta, testers often complained that Microsoft was purposefully not revealing the "real" Windows Vista boot screen and was instead taunting them with a plain boot screen that displayed only a simple progress bar and a copyright message (Figure). Well, here's the real surprise: That Spartan boot screen is in fact the final boot screen and it looks like that by design. Here's the story.

Over the past few years, an alarming number of companies have released products that slow down the Windows boot process. BIOS makers, PC makers, and video card makers are among the companies that have begun adding superfluous advertisement screens at system boot, trumpeting their products, curiously, to the people who had already bought them. Working with the industry, Microsoft asked these companies to cut down on their pre-boot screens. And to do its part, Microsoft has created this simple new boot screen for Windows Vista.

Microsoft tells me that the new boot screen reduces Vista's boot time by an average of 6 seconds compared to the graphical screen they were originally planning to use. 6 seconds may not sound like a lot of time, but in the context of a PC booting, it's the difference between a near-appliance and an aging 286 that last wheezed its way along with Windows 3.1.

As a result, Windows Vista should boot much more quickly on the same hardware than does Windows XP. And in my own experience this is quite definitely the case. (There are other Vista technologies that help this system boot more quickly as well, of course.)

NOTE: You can still activate the /noguiboot in Boot.ini file and see the aurora bootscreen!

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[nitish_mythology]

Ya,6 sec do matter a lot!
Thanx fr the info........Vishal

 

[Third Eye]

Thanks for the info man !

 

[blackpearl]

This is interesting.

 

[Kiran.dks]

Nice pic of info Vishal. Thanks

 

[aryayush]

That's an interesting piece of tidbit. I, too, had thought that the plain boot screen was just for the pre-release versions and that there would be a swamky boot screen in the final release. Guess I was wrong.

 

[king007]

Good Info Vishal, Thanks for posting it!

 

[jz2linkinpark]

awesome...thanks!

 

[manas]

Thanks for the info.. Vishal

 

[iMav]

hey vishal so u started to get ur hands dirty with vista's registry also

 

[Ankur Gupta]

yeah nice info....keep sharing these infos about vista

 

[hemant_mathur]

That interesting .

 

[Tech Geek]

Thanks for the info Vishal

 

[aryayush]

hey vishal so u started to get ur hands dirty with vista's registry also

He has been helping people with registry hacks since as long as I remember.

 

[tarey_g]

nice, even i never bothered to change the xp boot screen

 

[n2casey]

Thx for the info.

 

[ketanbodas]

Reeeal Deep info. Thanx dude

 

[JGuru]

Atlast M$ made a wise decision. Good news for Vista users.

 

[outlaw]

yep an excellent decision by MS

but still i'd love to see a good boot screen

 

[bhunnu16]

Thnx for the info Vishal.
Its really interesting.