Windows 7 Vista boot screen when loading Windows 7

Windows7User9000 · Jan 12, 2009

I have an Acer Aspire one AOA150 8.9" screen, 1GB of RAM, Intel GMA950, Intel Atom N270, and 160GB HDD. I have three partitions set up: one for XP, one for sharing files, and one for Windows 7 Build 7000. The problem is when I go to start Windows 7 I see the Vista loading screen with the green bar. So, to address the problem, I thought it may be something to do with the MBR. So, I install easy BCD and rewrote the MBR, restart and found that the settings which I have changed work, but the Vista boot screen still pops up.

Some have said it has to do with the connections to a LCD TV, but obviously that cannot be that case here. It has to be something with the boot up settings. Has anyone fixed this problem using EasyBCD or by using another method?

Thanks in advance.

unawave · Feb 25, 2009

I have had the same problem.

On one PC I solved it.
An old PC with screen resolution 1024 x 768:
I opened command line with admin rights, then enter:

bcdedit /set {current} locale en-US

(in my case: "bcdedit /set {current} locale de-DE" for German)

First you can check if correct locale string is in boot record:
Open command line with admin rights, then enter:

bcdedit

On a second PC I have no luck: "MSI Netbook" with screen resolution 1024 x 600. I have read that the new Windows 7 animated boot screen only appears when screen resolution is minimum of 1024 x 768.

vahnx · Apr 27, 2010

Not to necropost but this issue remains with the latest updates and everything, still in frikken 2010! My netbook runs 7/OSX/UNR10.04 and Windows 7 is the only one whos splash screen acts funny, well Ubuntu's does but Linux isn't exactly what I'd say is reliable when it comes to booting on various hardware. From everything I gathered, different boot files or resolutions lower than 1024x768 (netbooks 1024x600 or less, usually) boot using Vista's splash and not the Windows 7 one. If there is a fix, how would one go about applying it and if there isn't one, why not? Sure, it's just a splash screen but so many people have been, "you're running Vista on a netbook" and I must explain to them... plus it would be nice to feel pure Windows 7 and not just Vista w/ some makeup.

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