Enable hidden Vista boot screen
Aug 17th, 2007 by Jared Schwager
The first time I booted into Vista I was very disappointed by the boot screen. Luckily there’s a quick and easy way to enable a much more visually appealing boot screen in Vista called “Aurora” that is not enabled by default. Here’s what the Aurora boot screen looks like and a quick how-to on enabling it.
Firstly, open your start menu, type msconfig into the search box, and press enter. In the window that pops up, go to the “Boot” tab. Check the box next to No GUI boot and Make all boot settings permanent. If you do not check “Make all boot settings permanent”, Windows Defender will bother you each and every time you boot into Windows.
You’re done! Just restart your computer and you should see a much better-looking boot screen.
And apparently if you do tick ‘Make all boot settings permanent’,you cannot then undo it. You are stuck with it.When I tick No GUI and Make all boot etc. a message pops up saying that the action is not reversable
John, you can still change the settings back to what they were before you changed them. You just need to remember what the settings were before you changed them. If you do not check “Make all boot settings permanent”, you will be booting in “Selective Startup” and Windows Defender will bother you every time you boot into Windows.