Changing your Vista boot screen and login screen
The first thing you see as you boot up your computer is your boot screen and shortly after you'll come to your login screen (if you have login enabled.) Although you don't spend much time using these interfaces, customizing them can be a nice touch. On this page you'll learn how to customize both these screens.

To successfully achieve this in an easy manner, you'll need two tools: 'Vista Boot Logo Generator' and 'LogonStudio Vista'. Both of these programs do not need to run in the background, so the performance of your system does not deteriorate at all. These programs simply patch your system files, so you don't have to do any shell scripting or editing of system files. Add a personal touch to your system as you follow this page.

Enable the Aurora Vista Boot Screen
The boot screen in Windows Vista is plain and lame. To change the boot screen, follow these simple steps:

1. Press the Start button, type 'msconfig', and hit enter
2. If prompted, select Continue
3. The System Configuration window will come up. Click on the Boot tab
4. Select your Windows Vista installation
5. Check the 'No GUI boot' box
6. Press OK
7. Click on Restart
Your computer will now reboot, and you will see the Aurora boot screen.