Windows 7 boot screen shows Windows Vista green bars
I installed Windows 7 Pro 64Bit on partition 2 of a hard disk that had 3 partitions. Part. 1 = Windows XP, Part. 2 = Windows 7, Part. 3 = User data. The install was successful and when I booted the system I was asked what system I wanted to boot.
I could boot Xp or Windows 7 without any problems. The Windows 7 boot screen showed the standard 4 windows color display.
After some testing I decided to move the Windows 7 partition to it's own disk and not use Windows XP any longer.
I used drive snapshot to do the move and on the first boot of the moved Windows 7 partition the boot program told me I had to repair the startup. Booted the Windows 7 installation DVD and did a startup repair. Now when I boot this moved system
everything works but the Windows 7 boot screen shows the Windows Vista green bars instead of the Windows 7 4 color panels.
I have searched for a solution on MSDN and the internet and have not found a solution.
Many people are having this problem and the solutions given do not work.
Some suggest the graphics card is set to too a low of a resolution but mine is not and the system boots find before I moved it.
Another person suggested my language was set wrong. Verified it was not.
Here a copy from bcdedit. Can't see anything wrong.
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Home>bcdedit
Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
path \bootmgr
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
default {current}
resumeobject {7ba95c9f-0ad4-11e0-954b-806e6f6e6963}
displayorder {current}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7 Professional (recovered)
locale en-US
recoverysequence {6bedbfed-0a1d-11e0-9e92-a98a66ac3194}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {7ba95c9f-0ad4-11e0-954b-806e6f6e6963}
C:\Users\Home>
I even installed a Microsoft hot patch that fixes this for Chinese just to see what happens. Nothing changed.
Thanks for any suggestions.
I would hate to have to reinstall everything just to fix the boot screen.
December 31st, 2010 3:30pm
Myself if it boots ok and the computer runs fine I wouldn't worry about it until you find the answer. Here is a link to a page that has 1 solution but not sure if it works.
http://www.askvg.com/fix-windows-7-boot-screen-changed-to-vista-styled/
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December 31st, 2010 4:33pm
I have been to that site and none of it's suggestions worked.
January 1st, 2011 1:11pm
What is your monitor resolution? Do you use 2 Monitor?"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/
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January 1st, 2011 2:49pm
None of the solutions on web really work so I copied my system to another disk and tried this.
Delete every file on the top directory on the Windows 7 boot disk except hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys.
Delete folder Boot
Delete any folder in Recovery
Shutdown and boot the installation DVD and do a repair. When the system shuts down boot the DVD again
and do another repair this time it will let you select Startup Repair. Reboot, now the Windows 7 boot screen appears.
January 1st, 2011 6:12pm
When the system shuts down boot the DVD again
and do another repair this time it will let you select Startup Repair. Reboot, now the Windows 7 boot screen appears.
strange solution, but fine that it works."A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/
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January 1st, 2011 8:01pm