Windows 7 Boot Screen

[Robbie Ride]

I dont think anyone would like to see all the stuff Safe Mode has when booting into Windows, I just think that having a better Boot Screen in Windows Seven completes the experience and not make it feel incomplete as with Windows Vista

Although nothing special i think thats what a majority of people want.

A few people think no-one customizes Windows, i.e skin the theme or boot screen so i am running another poll to find out it's located here

Do You Customize / Skin Your Windows Computer

[Mr. Dee]

I dont think anyone would like to see all the stuff Safe Mode has when booting into Windows, I just think that having a better Boot Screen in Windows Seven completes the experience and not make it feel incomplete as with Windows Vista

Although nothing special i think thats what a majority of people want.

A few people think no-one customizes Windows, i.e skin the theme or boot screen so i am running another poll to find out it's located here

Do You Customize / Skin Your Windows Computer

The only change I would make is to just have the progress bar in the middle center of the screen.

[CrimsonBetrayal]

My question is, who cares?! I mean, it's on your screen for all of what 30 seconds maximum (unless you're running it on a PC with not nearly enough power). And for what it's worth, it certainly has no effect on the actual OS features/performance. It could be a picture of a turd for all I care, as long as Windows 7 delivers, I'll be happy (as long as they don't use it as an opportunity to try and market more stuff to me... always marketing...).

Edit: grammatical mistake.

[Robbie Ride]

Thats all fine and well but we'll never truely find out what people want will we?

[CrimsonBetrayal]

Thats all fine and well but we'll never truely find out what people want will we?

Valid point, but it was an option! Okay, what I want, here it is: Ditch the boot screen altogether. Start using a bit of hard drive space to store the OS current state on shutdown. Have intelligent service monitoring that can restart, repair, and modify services as required. The only time you should see the boot screen is the very first time you turn on the OS, and that could be a welcome, please wait while we configure your PC screen. I guess if I have to look at a boot screen, I'd like it to look better than the 8-bit graphics we're used to, since most people who will be running it will have a good enough graphics card to support it. And I'd like the option to see current startup threads (drivers being loaded, services starting, applications starting, etc.) I realize this is multi-threaded and asychronous, so there could be a few lines of info.

I think that's it...

[Robbie Ride]

You've touched on a feature that Microsoft was suppose to be including in Windows Vista.

Have intelligent service monitoring that can restart, repair, and modify services as required -

Microsoft was working on a feature where when using Windows Update the sytem is suppose to update itself pro-actively without too many reboots and if it does then it takes a snap shot of the current state, reboot the computer and returns it to the previous state, which it does not, if you are working on something or using an application these are suppose to reload after reboot, it never happens, therefor the feature was never included.

[Kirkburn]

nvm

[BajiRav]

It's supposed to stay there until Explorer is up and ready to go. It does NOT wait for other apps in the start-up path like Messenger, sidebar, etc. However, the system should be responsive while those are loading since they're loaded with background priority.

The idea is that as soon as you see the taskbar you should be able to click on the start button and open an app. Your gadgets, buddy list, tray icons might trickle in over a short period though.

Just today, I sat through Vista's entire boot sequence for the first time in last 18 or so months. I noticed something weird. I could click the start button and the start menu loaded but performance was sluggish than usual. The HDD activity made me think that it was probably superfetch loading its "stuff" into RAM. I have noticed that after booting (about 30 sec for me), I have to wait for superfetch to load into RAM and system is noticeably slow during that period.

[Robbie Ride]

Superfecth may or may not have been the problem thats causing your performance issues, could be a number of factors that could cause startup performance issues

[Bigjake52]

How about a photo we Pick? That would be cool oor a photo slid show from out picturs folder.. or just an apple logo with a gere.. LOL.. (Mac Fan) But I still like to keep up on windows for old emulator and nes snes games.. (emulation) Well I like both worlds tho lol

[Robbie Ride]

That actually sounds like a great idea and the best suggestion to be submitted on this post.

Whether Microsoft implements it is another story.

[digitalsoft]

Might have been suggested but i think seeing as the orb is now the new start button/logo etc, the boot should be some type of 360 progressive loading, like the cursor.

[mad_onion]

How about a photo we Pick? That would be cool oor a photo slid show from out picturs folder.. or just an apple logo with a gere.. LOL.. (Mac Fan) But I still like to keep up on windows for old emulator and nes snes games.. (emulation) Well I like both worlds tho lol

lol, so before it starts loading windows it's supposed to load at least 1 jpg file from your pictures folder and decode and render it. and even then it will look all low res and low colour. yeah that doesn't sound like a waste of time and a possible source of boot issues.

people really need to think before they type :rolleyes:

[Robbie Ride]

I think the user should customize what they want on the OS, the more personalization the better

[mad_onion]

I think the user should customize what they want on the OS, the more personalization the better

unfortunately microsoft is never going to let you have the kind of customization that he was suggesting. the main reason being that it would be a virtually pointless waste of time.

[Robbie Ride]

Why would you think that, there are plenty of 3rd party software available for this to be done, so why shouldn't Microsoft jump on this bandwagon?

[afuchi]

It would be awesome when boot screen was blue screen ^^

[mad_onion]

ok you think microsoft will add a feature so that people can make low res, low colour images appear on their boot screen. i strongly disagree, i guess we'll have to wait and see who's right.

[Ricardo Gil]

Funny how many people care about this.

[Martog]

Why would you think that, there are plenty of 3rd party software available for this to be done, so why shouldn't Microsoft jump on this bandwagon?

Anti-trust lawsuits come to mind really. Microsoft has to be careful how much 3rd party functionality they impliment into their products without being taken to court over it now of days. That and some parts of the OS to personally for Windows would require a bit of a re-write to accomplish as the bootscreens for Windows for one are stored in the ntoskrnl.exe file and they would have to change how Windows boots up to acommodate a higher resolution screen (which may come whenever we can ditch the BIOS in favor of EFI possibly). The amount of work just to put in the ability for the user to change the boot screen would simply be a lot more work than one would think, especially if they want something other than just 16 colors. Other parts of the OS might be easier to impliment customization, but again, Microsoft needs to watch what they do so they do not get taken to court for including too much that 3rd party developers think their product is no longer needed.

[Robbie Ride]

It seems such a shame that Microsoft can implement what users want without the fear of being taken to court by 3rd party developers, there are so many things Microsoft can do but again the fear can be so great and the lawsuits would be endless.

I think Microsoft may have the EFI feature in incubation thus are waiting until the technology has matured before implementing it into the Windows OS, saying that i don't know of any other OS which has that feature.

[acido00]

will be great!

but I'm not sure

[Bigjake52]

I dont think it would be that hard my frend still uses windows 98 and he has his own jpg when he boots up... and it is very quick to get in the gui and runs fine and looks fine and everything... with the power of todays computer why would making a jpg pop up? But even better is to have somthing like how the mac's boot up just like how about a windows logo and a spining globe ? I dont know

lol, so before it starts loading windows it's supposed to load at least 1 jpg file from your pictures folder and decode and render it. and even then it will look all low res and low colour. yeah that doesn't sound like a waste of time and a possible source of boot issues.

people really need to think before they type :rolleyes:

[Bigjake52]

Bump!

Ok This is somthing i woorked on.. I got photo shop cs3 i was using like 4.0 for like ever So i have to re learn it LOL but here is my ideia.. but the glob would move like in ie4\5 and you g=could change the windows logo and that would load windows like how mac's load osx.. and no messing with biso... OK Dont laugh my photo shoping sucks at the moment

[Robbie Ride]

Bump!

Ok This is somthing i woorked on.. I got photo shop cs3 i was using like 4.0 for like ever So i have to re learn it LOL but here is my ideia.. but the glob would move like in ie4\5 and you g=could change the windows logo and that would load windows like how mac's load osx.. and no messing with biso... OK Dont laugh my photo shoping sucks at the moment

So where is this photoshoped picture that you created?