How To Enable Vista’s Hidden Bootscreen: Aurora
Posted By: Behrad 
Tuesday 27 January 2009 
12 Comments
What do you think about the default Vista’s bootscreen? It’s not really spectacular at all and it’s boring. I mean..It just shows a loading bar and the Microsoft Corporation copyright on a “beautiful” black screen. Cool isn’t it? Nope, you got that right! 
You can make your Vista even cooler with a hidden bootscreen called Aurora. I don’t know why this bootscreen isn’t active by default, cause this one looks much better then the default one.
To enable the hidden bootscreen in Vista, follow the steps here below:
- First disable UAC. For more info on disabling UAC read: “Disable User Access Control In Windows Vista” and/or “Switch UAC To The Quiet Mode“. If you like UAC, then you can enable it again after enabling Vista’s hidden bootscreen.
- Go to Start – Searchbar
- Type msconfig and hit Enter
- Now, go to Boot tab
- In the Boot option Check No GUI Boot option
- Click on Apply and OK to close the screen
- Now reboot your computer and enjoy the Aurora bootscreen!
Windows Vista is cool.
Changing the boot screen to a custom image is even more fun. But beware that boot screen file alter could render your system to lose some system files and can cause windows to be corrupted. I have got stuck twice and had to re-install the whole setup. 
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hi,
very interesting post. i found very little information about vista on the web..
thank you for your great support.
Yeah, I’ve tried that in the past Srihari Padmanabhan when I was running XP.. But like you mentioned it didn’t work out the way I hoped!
Hi Ajay@design Contest. On BioTecK.net you can find a lot of tips and tricks for Vista, so you’re at the right place!
Thank you for the great tip.. I was searching this for a long time..
Thank you….
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Thnx a lot Home Accents!
hm… Now I need to check what is with my bootscreen,as I never did it! hehe, hope everything will be ok with it! Wonderful post. It’s an impoortant part of what keeps us all coming back to your blog.
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Yeah, Check it out Gracie – Canadian Mortgage Calculator. I tried it too and it did work just fine for me too.
i don’t know much about vista , i was think that it is complex version ” because my computer features is not high ” but i enjoyed this tip and wait more about vista .
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So it is already on computer your just changing to it. Does it slow boot down or is it the same amount of time.
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Vista is indeed very different then XP.. If you can customize it by turning off a lot of features you can work with it very well Money Acamedy. However.. I’m so looking forward to Windows Se7en…
I haven’t experienced anything such as a slower boot time or etc Freestuff. And yeah it should be already on your computer..