Comments on: Fix and Restore Windows 7 Boot Screen That Changes to Vista Style

By: johnny

johnny — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:27:41 +0000

bcdboot %WinDir% /l en-US worked for me

By: Blind EAGLE

Blind EAGLE — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:14:59 +0000

by the way those commands didnt work for me at all.
i installed my win7 from my dvd at labtop toshiba by upgrading from vista and the logo work.
my friend has the same copy and install win7 beside win xp (multiboot)and guess wat , the logo working.
i install it at my pc as clean install and i have that silly red dot
my friend buy different copy of win7 and install it clean install and he see red dot as me even so my pc and my friend had higher specs than the labtop and the other pc.
so wat i found from this mess is that if u install win7 clean installation u will get stupid red dot.
the logo is so cool it desirve to work hard for it

By: Blind EAGLE

Blind EAGLE — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:02:51 +0000

i think i somehow fix that
i was have that red dot at start up (which refer to the start of the animation ) then by chance i was installing daemon tools lite ,daemon must first install that old driver (SPTD or something)then restart pc then i found the animation appear for first time but not completed it hang before it finish (its better than nothing huh)
so u just install that stupid app “daemon tools lite (mine was v4.304) and enjoy the animation or at least part of it
lol

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:16:44 +0000

I think I found something as MS seem to be limited display size during boot up when I plugged DVI HDMI from PC to 40″ LCD TV and it was Vista old green bard at 1280 x 720 so that may cause problems and i take off and plug the DVI <. D-SUB (can work DVIDVI) at 1024×768@50mhz that bought back the Win 7 own logo. I noticed my own system as the boot up was 1024×720 and then change to 1920×1080p when the Log-on screen came up so think its the display size that MS may have limited for Win 7 logo and if detect large display size then it will change to Vista green bar as the BCDedit cannot do anything about – you need is change the display size during boot up which recommend is 1024×720.

I got it back all right as I spend 2 days to find it. if you use HDMI or more than display size which MS limited then you wont get Win 7 Logo bootup screen

By: unruled

unruled — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:08:03 +0000

win7 recovery disc (RTM) gave me a vista bootloader.. really weird. :/

By: alex

alex — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:39:21 +0000

this did not work for me…. vista boot screen sucks

By: Espen

Espen — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:48:24 +0000

“bcdboot %WinDir% /l en-EN” (English) worked for me, thank you very much!!!
My issue was that I had a completely black splash screen, but the command I mentioned fixed it! Thanks!

By: Andrew McNaughton

Andrew McNaughton — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:21:07 +0000

This will not help people who have a boot resolution of less than 768 horizontal lines. Microsoft decides to limit the animation to a fixed minimum boot resolution of 1024×768. So if you have a modern widescreen display at 1280×720 during boot then you will be excluded from the new boot animation party and will see the fugly Vista earthworm. Sometimes I just think Microsoft engineering is full of people with learning difficulties and social disfunctions. They also seem to be stuck in a timewarp where it’s still 1999 where they are.

I use an HDTV as my main display and unfortunately my VGA card’s BIOS has it boot at 1280×720. It isn’t until the proper VGA driver loads that the resolution goes up to 1920×1080 and that’s after the boot animation.

I hope someone discovers how to hack this limitation. There must be a file or registry entry which controls this and surely we’ll be able to tweak it.

By: GIuliano

GIuliano — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:29:28 +0000

it doesn’t work…
Tried both commands in elevated mode but nothing happens, nothing…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:31:20 +0000

I used the “bcdboot %WinDir% /l en-US” worked beautifully that windows server 2008 startup is so bland, windows 7 is gorgeous. Thank you sir!

By: balance

balance — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:23:25 +0000

worked like a charm

had problem with windows 7 boot up
used the vista repair cd and windows 7 loading screen was like vista

thanks

By: Raiden

Raiden — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:15:38 +0000

is there any way to repair the boot screen without being able to boot windows 7. I have Win XP and Windows 7 on the same computer and i tried to install a custom boot screen. Now it wont boot. ohh and to top things off i dont have the iso for Win 7 anymore (installed it wiht flash drive).

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By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:46:40 +0000

Again, further to my last comment. Its hit and miss.

I’ve lost the Windows 7 animation again.

I’m wondering if its just not possible to keep the animation on a dual boot system? Seems to remove it for whatever reason.

This is on my Samsung NC10 netbook by the way.

Thanks.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:05:27 +0000

Further to my previous comment, I stand corrected. It took THREE restarts, but it did actually work. Applied first command, and restarted. No change. Applied second command, and restarted. No change. Restarted again – voilà!

Many thanks.