Vista - Need Help To Fix Boot Logo

ok Jon...going to check it all out again...thanks for your patients.

OK JON....I am geting there. After finding out how to run bcdedit, I am stuck with how to make the actuall changes.

I can see the list under two Headings "Windows Boot Manager" & Windows Boot loader"...Oh yea I found that file and have made both copies with my name as a prefix and saved them in the said directories. I just cant seem to be able to highlight or create another Bootloader...and if I could do I erase the other and save the text somewhere else?............... sorry I cant comprehend it any better...nearly there...will go back to see if I can somehow create or edit...seems like I only have to change one line in the boot loader hey?

I've manage to make a BCD backup but come on man...I'm only a newbie and still cant work out how to add another entry like you...and even so with two boot loader entry how does it know which one to use? which is why I asked do you remove the orignal entry to get the newly created one to work.

How did you edit the path to you newly created jonwinload.exe.mui???

i can change the path now but not th "nx" how do i switch that to always off

I give up........I ended up being able to do it your way but I still must be doing something wrong.....check out this link and you will see my last ditch effort with screen shots....
Later & thanks anyways....I don't think it can be done with service pack 1 anymore...that sucks!!!!
Vista Getting WINLOAD.EXE.MUI to work in Service Pack 1 - Notebook Forums and Laptop Discussion

"Davekyn" <Davekyn.383w0z@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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Apologies for the delay. As Bryan Adams would say 'Don't give up'.

I think I see what you meant now in your original post. The 'Windows Vista
is starting' text that you get with RTM doesn't appear with SP1. It doesn't
appear either with the default 'Aurora' image, so I think that that is the
main change from RTM to SP1.

You can still get an alternative boot logo coming up though with SP1,
though. Assuming you've got an otherwise normally working SP1 installation,
these commands may help with that ..

#List current boot entries.....
bcdedit /enum
bcdedit /v


#Make a copy of the current boot entry
bcdedit /copy {current} /d "Windows Vista (boot logo)"

You should then get a successfully generated message containing a {guid} eg
{9ccd501b-0a1f-11dd-896d-00402b449c4b}
which you'd then use in the following


#Set a new path to a renamed winload.exe eg
bcdedit /set {guid} path "\windows\system32\JonsWinload.exe"
eg
bcdedit /set {9ccd501b-0a1f-11dd-896d-00402b449c4b} path
"\windows\system32\JonsWinload.exe"


#Set the 'noguiboot' (required)
bcdedit /set {guid} quietboot Yes

#Add the new boot entry to the boot entries list
bcdedit /displayorder {guid} /addlast

The 'nx' entry was a bit of a red herring, sorry - you can leave that one at
its default if you like.
+ in your screenshot you've got some strange additional entries such as
'detecthal' and 'usefirmwarepcisettings'

Getting rid of those may help (?)...

bcdedit /deletevalue {guid} detecthal
bcdedit /deletevalue {guid} usefirmwarepcisettings

The completed entry looking something like this ....

#----------------------------------
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {9ccd501b-0a1f-11dd-896d-00402b449c4b}
device partition=C:
path \windows\system32\JonsWinload.exe
description Windows Vista (boot logo)
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {dadbd8bf-ce3c-1222-b7e9-82407a617fcd}
nx AlwaysOff
quietboot Yes
sos No
#----------------------------------

If I discover anything more about the missing text issue I'll post it in,
but I hope that helps anyhow.

--
Jon

Thanks for getting back to me,
I also got side tracked and will have another go later today or tonight at it. I am glad for the chance to try again...give me 24 hours as of this post and I will be back to let you know how it goes...

I reinstalled with ulimate edition just to get the drem scenes happening