7 boot animation reverts to Vista on Dell Inspiron 1100

[gregrocker]

Working on Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop which has had Win7 boot animation revert to dull Vista progress bar for startup.

Have tried internet fixes such as running Admin CMD> "bcdedit /set {current} locale en-US",

clean reinstalled with HD zeroing,

updating BIOS which causes error "Program Access Denied: Make sure you are logged in as Admin" whether run as hidden Admin, in Safe Mode, etc.

This is an old box with Celeron and 1 gb RAM that was able to run animation fine for awhile and only has reverted since a repair install was done. I suspect older BIOS version is but why would it have run animation fine before?. Anyone with experience in fixing this is most appreciated.

 

[Product FRED]

Are you sure you did it correctly? This fix has been reported on almost every site I've come by:

[Fix] Windows 7 Boot Screen Changed to Vista Style - Tweaking with Vishal

- Fred

 

[gregrocker]

Yeah I've tried both commands given but will try, try again.

Notice the comments from those who couldn't get fixes to work.

 

[Product FRED]

Make sure to run it with Admin privilege or it won't work.

 

[gregrocker]

Am running as Admin but neither command restores Win7 color flames boot animation.

Anyone else have any ideas?