Posted: February 19, 2009/Under: Operating Systems/By:
Sometimes, the beautiful, elegant, high resolution animated and dynamic Windows 7 boot screen UI may be changed to or replaced with Windows Vista boot screen, normally when user adds a Windows 7 entry in boot menu or accidentally when user attempts to repair the startup menu items with Windows Vista DVD, specifically Startup Repair. Windows Vista boot screen is a boring black background with low resolution green running progress bar.
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-US
or
bcdboot %WinDir% /l en-US
Change the en-US 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.
Its a very annoying and common problem in Windows 7. After getting numerous e-mails about this problem, we decided to post this solution.
As we all know Windows 7 contains a new animated boot screen which shows animated items/balls that come together to form Windows logo.
Sometimes it starts showing the old Vista styled boot screen which contains only a green progress bar with black background.
Most of the time it happens when a user tries to repair the boot loader or adds a new entry for Windows 7.
If you are also facing this problem, then here is a very simple and working solution for you:
1. Boot into Windows 7 and click on “Start button -> All Programs -> Accessories“. Now right-click on “Command Prompt” and select “Run As Administrator“. If you are prompted to enter password, enter the password and continue. You can also open Command Prompt in Administrator mode by typing “cmd” in Start Menu Search box and press “Ctrl+Shift+Enter“.
2. Now provide following command:
bcdedit /set {current} locale en-US
The above command is for English version of Windows, if you are using some other language version, then change “en-US” to your own locale.
3. Exit Command Prompt and restart your system. Now the new animated Windows 7 boot screen should be back in action.
NOTE 1:
If the above method doesn’t work for you, provide following command again using Command Prompt:
bcdboot %WinDir% /l en-US
And restart your system. It’ll work now.
NOTE 2:
If none of the above mentioned methods work, try following method suggested by our reader “Sirach Matthews“:
1. Open My Computer and go to C:\Windows\System32\ folder.
2. Now look for following 2 files:
bootres.dll
bootres~1.dll
3. Rename bootres.dll file to bootres~2.dll and rename bootres~1.dll file to bootres.dll
Windows will automatically rename bootres~2.dll to bootres~1.dll after this name change.
4. Restart your computer and it’ll fix the issue.
PS: Please keep in mind that new Windows 7 boot screen requires at least 1024×768 screen resolution. If your monitor’s native resolution is smaller than this, Windows 7 will show Windows Vista boot screen.
UPDATE:
Also try the command given in following tutorial to restore default boot screen in Windows 7:
[Fun Tip] Enable Windows Vista Boot Screen in Windows 7
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Ok, I caused it but I am wondering if anybody ever heard of this and if I can change it back.
I am running windows 7 and I booted into safe mode to do a sfc /scannow. I was having another small issue and thought that I would just do that to check if it would fix it. After I rebooted I got a boot menu that said that I have Windows 7 and Vista installed and I should pick which OS I wanted. This was upgraded from Vista. I picked Windows 7 and it couldn’t find it. Tried again and picked Vista and it couldn’t find it either. That wasn’t good. I had a Vista recovery disk from Neosmart and tried that. It booted on that and detected right away that there was an issue and offered to fix it. I let it and when it rebooted, I got the Vista startup screen but it was my Windows 7 that I ended up with. It couldn’t be any different because that is all that is on it.
I am assuming that because I used a Vista disk for the repair is why that happed but when I try to now use a Windows 7 recovery disk, it doesn’t change back. Not that it is really important, but wondering if I can change it back. Otherwise, I guess as long as it is working, not going to worry about it.
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You cold just boot into the WinRe (recovery environment) from an F8 key possibly, or boot to a recovery CD or install DVD and in the Repair the computer options is a command window. Use that and type the following.
Bootrec /rebuildbcd
This should rebuild the Boot senario. Instructions for Bootrec are
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If you want to see what it looks like now, you can open an administrative command prompt and type BCDedit to see how it is set up. You could also edit it yourself if you wanted to go that direction.
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You cold just boot into the WinRe (recovery environment) from an F8 key possibly, or boot to a recovery CD or install DVD and in the Repair the computer options is a command window. Use that and type the following.
Bootrec /rebuildbcd
This should rebuild the Boot senario. Instructions for Bootrec are
here
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If you want to see what it looks like now, you can open an administrative command prompt and type BCDedit to see how it is set up. You could also edit it yourself if you wanted to go that direction.
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OK here is what I get.
C:\Users\Greg>^VBCDedit
‘▬BCDedit’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\Users\Greg>BCDedit
Windows Boot Manager
———————
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
path \bootmgr
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
resumeobject {96ce6ae1-85ab-11df-8d11-c869802f9997}
displayorder {current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
{572bcd56-ffa7-11d9-aae0-0007e994107d}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
——————-
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7 Ultimate (recovered)
recoverysequence {96ce6ae3-85ab-11df-8d11-c869802f9997}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {24c67bc9-8329-11e0-aaa4-806e6f6e6963}
C:\Users\Greg>
crap, right? Nothing that is telling me it is hot………
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The attachment is what you should have. The reference to a Harddisk is because of the small partition, and the numbers will of course be different.
The reason you are seeing a Vista boot is probably because you have the (Recovered) on your Windows 7 entry.
Have you done the Bootrec command yet. Make note the instructions talk about deleting the original BCD Store if you do not get a good replacement.
Edit: And if that doesn’t work, we can replace the entire boot system, or you can download EasyBCD version 2 or above and let it set up the boot for you.
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I am sure it is because I used the disk., I don’t know why it won’t change back
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[Fix] Windows 7 Boot Screen Changed to Vista Style
Its a very annoying and common problem in Windows 7. After getting numerous e-mails about this problem, i decided to post this solution.
As we all know Windows 7 contains a new animated boot screen which shows animated items/balls that come together to form Windows logo.
Sometimes it starts showing the old Vista styled boot screen which contains only a green progressbar with black background.
Most of the time it happens when a user tries to repair the boot loader or adds a new entry for Windows 7.
If you are also facing this problem, then here is a very simple and working solution for you:
1. Boot into Windows 7 and click on «Start button -> All Programs -> Accessories«. Now right-click on «Command Prompt» and select «Run As Administrator«. If you are prompted to enter password, enter the password and continue. You can also open Command Prompt in Administrator mode by typing «cmd» in Start Menu Search box and press «Ctrl+Shift+Enter«.
2. Now provide following command:
bcdedit /set {current} locale en-US
The above command is for English version of Windows, if you are using some other language version, then change «en-US» to your own locale.
3. Exit Command Prompt and restart your system. Now the new animated Windows 7 boot screen should be back in action.
NOTE: If the above method doesn’t work for you, provide following command again using Command Prompt:
bcdboot %WinDir% /l en-US
And restart your system. It’ll work now.