This is a handy little program for those who wish to modify the W8 boot. As far as I can tell, it should live peacefully with Stardock’s W8 programs, but if not, it can be saved on a stick for times you’ll be asked to fix someone’s W8 computer. It’ll give you rapid access to legacy settings which you’ll need.
I published another article today before I discovered this gem through gHacks (thanks, gHacks!). Hope the Wiz and others find this useful.
Boot UI Tuner returns legacy choices which were “shortened” to the point of unusability, and lets you dispense with the boot logo and spinning animation.
Latest version 1.0.1 allows you to enable verbose logon messages.
With help of Boot UI Tuner you will be able:
- to enable advanced options of boot menu - such options as safe mode, debugging and so on will be available before every boot of your Windows 8;
- to enable editing of boot options - this allows you to specify an addition options for kernel. They are similar to good old boot.ini features;
- to disable blue Windows Logo during boot;
- to disable spinning circle during boot;
- to disable text messages during boot - messages like “Please wait”, “Updating registry – 10%” and so on;
- to disable whole modern boot UI and turn it into legacy mode;
- to enable or disable verbose sign in messages.
You can read about it here: http://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.191
Also there’s Martin Brinkmann’s review here: http://www.ghacks.net/2013/01/02/modify-windows-8-boot-options-with-boot-ui-tuner/ which should be read.
There’s a youtube vid (same one) on both sites.
If you prefer to suffer through doing it all by hand, the “How to” is here: http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-windows-8-boot-logo-spining-icon-and-some-other-hidden-settings/
Download link: http://winaero.com/download.php?list.2