If you don’t want to
go to the trouble of
building your own
boot screen, but
aren’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
fi le with your own boot
screen, you’ll need to
restore the original to
see the Aurora screen).