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

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