hey a classmate of mine just showed me his new hp laptop with vista loaded on it. The boot screen was the aurora boot screen, but with a green load bar on the bottom which showed the progress of the boot. He said that was the one preloaded on the laptop. Has anyone seen this before?

Check this out gamestargrinder.

This article explain how you can change the boot screen to i.e Aurora.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vis...-windows-vista/

i know how to do the no gui boot screen, what I am saying is that the hp laptop i was looking at had a different aurora boot screen. The aruroa actually was animated and there was a green load bar at the bottom, that moved with the progress of the booting

That could be from him coming back from hibernation...it does that.

thats ace, thanks for the link

the no gui bootscreen option in sp1 gives you a totally different wallpaper.