This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the graphical animation GUI Boot while booting or resuming from hibernation into Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8.
You must be logged in as an administrator to be able to do the steps in this tutorial.
Note
Disabling GUI Boot may help reduce the amount of time it takes to startup Windows by a small amount of time (few seconds at most).
If "No GUI Boot" in Vista, you will have the Aurora boot screen instead of the green animated loading bar.
If "No GUI Boot" in Windows 7, you will have a blank black boot screen instead of the animated dots turning into a Windows flag.
If "No GUI Boot" in Windows 8, you will only have the blue window in the boot screen instead of also with the animated spining circle of dots.
EXAMPLE: Default "GUI Boot" Screens in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8
OPTION ONE
Enable or Disable "GUI Boot" in msconfig (System Configuration)
1. Press Windows+R keys to open the Run dialog, type msconfig, and click/tap on OK.
2. Click/tap on the Boot tab, select the OS (ex: Windows 7) that you want to set this for at it's startup, and go to step 3 or 4 below. (see screenshot below)
3. To Enable GUI Boot for the Selected Windows NOTE:This is the default setting.
A) Uncheck the No GUI Boot box, and go to step 5 below. (see screenshot below step 2)
4. To Disable GUI Boot for the Selected Windows
A) Check the No GUI Boot box, and go to step 5 below. (see screenshot below step 2)
5. If you have another Windows installed (ex: Windows 8) in a multiboot setup that you would like to set this for as well, then repeat step 3 or 4 above for it as well and go to step 6 afterwards.
6. Check the Make all boot settings permanent box, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below step 2)
7. Click/tap on Yes. (see screenshot below)
8. Click/tap on Restart to apply. (see screenshot below) NOTE:Be sure to save and close anything you have open first.
2. In the command prompt, type bcdedit and press Enter. Under the Windows Boot Loader sections, make note of the identifier value (ex: {current}) for the OS description (ex: Windows 7) that you want to use in step 4 or 5 below.
3. Do step 4 or 5 below for what you would like to do.
4. To Enable GUI Boot for the Selected Windows NOTE:This is the default setting.
A) In the command prompt, type the command below and press Enter. NOTE:Substitute identifier in the command below with the actual value or long GUID number to the right of identifer in the command used from step 2.
bcdedit /set {identifier} quietboot Yes
For example: If I wanted to set this for Windows 7 (description) with it's "identifier" showing as {current} from step 2, I would type this command below exactly and press Enter.
bcdedit /set {current} quietboot Yes
B) Go to step 6 below.
5. To Disable GUI Boot for the Selected Windows
A) In the command prompt, type the command below and press Enter. NOTE:Substitute identifier in the command below with the actual value or long GUID number to the right of identifer in the command used from step 2.
bcdedit /set {identifier} quietboot No
For example: If I wanted to set this for Windows 7 (description) with it's "identifier" showing as {current} from step 2, I would type this command below exactly and press Enter.
bcdedit /set {current} quietboot No
B) Go to step 6 below.
6. If you have another Windows installed (ex: Windows 8) in a multiboot setup that you would like to set this for as well, then repeat the steps above for it as well and go to step 7 afterwards.
7. Close the command prompt. If you like, you can restart the computer and startup the Windows this was applied to see the change.
Thank you for the tutorial, but in OPTION ONE. You checked Make all boot settings permanent. What is this? You cannot restore them or you can restore them with rstrui.exe?
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Keyboard Built-in on my laptop Mouse External mouse Hard Drives 320 GB HDD storage
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"Permanent" is a bit misleading. It's just a setting that needs to be checked to keep it set that way until you want to change it again using the steps in the tutorial. That's all.
"Permanent" is a bit misleading. It's just a setting that needs to be checked to keep it set that way until you want to change it again using the steps in the tutorial. That's all.
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System Manufacturer/Model Number Acer Aspire One 722 (AO722) OS Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1 32-bit Build 7601 CPU AMD C-50 Processor 1.0 Ghz Memory 2 GB DDR3 RAM (1.73 usable in System Properties) Graphics Card AMD Radeon HD 6200 series Graphics Sound Card High Definition Audio Device Monitor(s) Displays Generic PnP Monitor Screen Resolution 1366 x 768 (recommended)
Keyboard Built-in on my laptop Mouse External mouse Hard Drives 320 GB HDD storage
298.09 GB in Disk Management (REAL) Other Info Installed Windows 7 Service Pack 1 by 9/9/2012
Disabling GUI Boot can help reduce the amount of time it takes to startup Windows by the amount of time it takes to not play the graphical animation anymore.
Ty, I've traced the msconfig "no gui boot" action and saw that a registry entry under in the BCD0000000 subkeys gets changed. I loaded the bcdtemplate file as temporary hive but could not find it in there. probably get's dynamically generated.
So using bcdedit after setup should solve this problem.
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OPTION ONE 
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