Each release of Windows treats us to a new boot screen. XP had its endless progress bar, and Vista added its emblem. Windows 7, though, gets a glowing Microsoft blob.

Or, Windows freezes at the login screen due to system corruption. So, you can use CMD on the login screen to perform an SFC/ DISM scan, boot the PC in safe mode, etc.

If this really is the new boot screen, I would gladly skip Christmas if it made January, and thus Windows 7 Beta 1, come sooner.

Those who love to customize everything in Windows will be disappointed to learn that Microsoft will not support customizing the boot screen animation. This is not something we will support in ...

Finally you get to see the Windows 7 boot screen which looks is different from Vista in that it has a “Starting Windows” message with a pulsating progress bar.

That's new - it's the Windows 7 boot screen, and if you're switching to 7, you'll be seeing this each time you boot your system. It's prettier than Vista, we reckon, but a boot screen is ...