Windows 7 HP - startup screens

Matty_Boy

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I have 2 different copies of Windows 7 Home Premium which I've installed on my Laptop and HTPC.
I notice that the Windows screen that appears after the BIOS postings prior to the desktop appearing differs on each copy, my laptop shows a new Windows Starting screen where the coloured Windows emblem phases into view, my HTPC shows the old Windows Vista type screen with the green bar that slides from left to right and back again.
Are there different builds floating around? Has anyone else noticed the differences?
Thanks.
 
The invalid and wrong boot screen for Windows 7 is due to missing locale entry in boot record, which failed to be set when editing or rebuilding the BCD. When locale is not found, Windows boot loader does not know which boot locale folder to look for the animated bootscreen. Thus, in order to fix the boot screen so that the boot screen can be reverted, restored or reseted back to original animated Windows 7 boot screen, just run one of the following commands in elevated command prompt with administrator rights:

bcdedit /set {current} locale en-UK

or

bcdboot %WinDir% /l en-UK

Change the en-UK to the language version of the installed Windows
7, such as ja-JP, de-DE, es-ES, pt-BR, zh-CN, zh-TW, fr-FR, fi-FI and etc.

Restart the computer after running the command to see the new boot UI (user interface) be used again. To check if the locale setting has been entered properly, just run the bceedit command in command prompt that runs as administrator.
 
eager said:
The invalid and wrong boot screen for Windows 7 is due to missing locale entry in boot record, which failed to be set when editing or rebuilding the BCD. When locale is not found, Windows boot loader does not know which boot locale folder to look for the animated bootscreen. Thus, in order to fix the boot screen so that the boot screen can be reverted, restored or reseted back to original animated Windows 7 boot screen, just run one of the following commands in elevated command prompt with administrator rights:

bcdedit /set {current} locale en-UK

or

bcdboot %WinDir% /l en-UK

Change the en-UK to the language version of the installed Windows
7, such as ja-JP, de-DE, es-ES, pt-BR, zh-CN, zh-TW, fr-FR, fi-FI and etc.

Restart the computer after running the command to see the new boot UI (user interface) be used again. To check if the locale setting has been entered properly, just run the bceedit command in command prompt that runs as administrator.
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Thanks - I'll take a look tonight at this.
Any idea why this would happen?
I've done a clean install twice now on this PC (my HTPC) and reformatted the OS Drive when promped at Custom Install.
Both times, the old Vista boot screen installs!
Could my copy of W7 Home Premium (Full Version) be erroneous?
 
My limited understanding of what you're talking about (read: guess) is it's something to do with the graphics driver that Windows uses before it properly boots and loads the full driver.

I've had it on a few various machines and just ignored it to be honest. How often do you look at the boot screen anyways? :)
 
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