Windows Vista got a blank screen with the progress bar at the bottom of the screen. The “not so public” release of Windows 7 (Build 6801) had a different boot screen than Vista, but still no where fancy.
One of the latest build of Windows 7 though, made a new appearance on the boot screen as can be seen on this video below:
It certainly is nice to see a better looking boot screen, but again, I don’t really care about it. Unless you have a very slow computer, you’ll probably won’t be seeing it for long. I don’t even need to restart my computer as often anymore now, thanks to the new Vista’s Sleep feature.
It won’t be long now til this build gets leaked on the web, if not already 
*checking the web*
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Pretty awesome bootscreen. Can’t wait to have it n my PC.
Well if you really know where to look, then you can have it now
(Windows 7 leaked version, that is)
Lol.. Would love to have it as well
Wow… i had almost forgotten about animated start-up screens.
Brings back memories of the Commodore 64, when a little animation or tune would play when loading a game from Cassette.
Now THOSE were the days
A.
lol Commodore 64? My first console was Atari but I remember having a friend with Commodore 64. Took ages to switch games, if I’m not mistaken
Where can I find Windows 7 at Michael LOL. I never used Vista. There were to many different names that it was called for me to take a risk trying it lol. I will stick to my trusted XP version till I can get my hands on 7
Well nowadays you can just Google everything.. Seek, and you will find
Well Windows 7 is rumored to be out next year, so yeah, don’t get Vista, get 7 instead if you are planning to migrate from XP
It did, but it was the best games machine ever. Did you know Commodore bought out atari, and the proceeded to f**k it’s name by trying to make it a business machine! Dumb arses!
Money does make people do things
Thats a great looking boot up screen. But I wonder if Windows 7 will boot up quicker though?
I relish the day when I can simply switch on my PC and it is up and running within 1 or 2 seconds.
Well you should see Vista’s Sleep (not the Shutdown). It’s like a shutdown (turns off your CPU and stuff) mixed with Hibernate. Switch on your PC, and it will be running within 1-2 seconds, with every Window/application still intact
WOW it looks simply great. But couldn’t understand “not so public”
nice article though 
Forgive my dry joke
Well the build isn’t supposed to be available to all people but someone has leaked it to the web (as usual)
I still havnt got vista, so I’ll just wait for this new one!
It is pretty neat looking.