Windows 10: OS Boot Selection Screen

Hi there reader/expert,

More a question than an actual problem. I have a dual boot system with both 8.1x64 and 10x64 on my 240GB SSD and I always used to have a nice boot selection screen in blue, like on the right side of the picture (something I grabbed from the inet). When I selected "8.1" as the OS to boot, the system would restart and then boot into 8.1

Recently however I've been getting an ugly DOS-like one, like on the left side of the picture. It does have the benefit of instantly booting to 8.1 when I select it, without restarting the whole machine. But I'm curious as to why I'm suddenly seeing this behavior ? Where did my nice blue screen go to ?





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Colour Windows 10 dual boot OS selection screen

Hello. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. I have a dual boot system on my main computer with Windows 10 and Windows 7. I did this a few months ago and it is working well. When I installed it, I remember it choked a bit before it started to work.
The screen that comes up first with a selection of operating systems has always been black with simple white typing on it. Recently I saw that a friend's computer has a nice blue coloured screen with OS options accompanied by a picture. Does anyone know how
I can get Windows to give me this nice pre-startup screen? I don't want to risk causing a malfunction by fooling around with it, but the colour screen would be nice. Any ideas?

Thanks,

 

Colour Windows 10 dual boot OS selection screen

Hi,

As you have a dual boot, with Windows 10 installed successfully. I would like to inform you that, under the boot section option were system is booted with preference is normal with the default background screen as black. If at all the background screen
during the boot option is of different color, which would be set by the manufacturer.

So if you prefer a different background color for the boot section, I suggest you to contact the manufacturer.

Hope it helps. Kindly update the status of booting the operating system to desktop for further assistance. We will be happy to help you.

Thank you.

 

See here: How to Switch Between Graphical and Text-based Multiboot Menu in Windows

Works on 8, 8.1 and 10.

 

I initially had the Windows 7 text based multi-boot display but changed it within Windows 10 using this command for the UK locale bcdboot c:\Windows /l en-gb

The Windows 7 multi-boot menu does have the advantage that you boot directly to the selected OS rather than going through a full restart cycle using the Windows 10 boot menu. Why does the Windows 10 boot menu have this long winded behavior?

 

Many thanks ! I indeed had some problems in searching for the correct terminology to locate the solution, hence this forum post. So kudos for helping me out in that regard. Applied the solution from the link and issue instantly solved.

However, I too am intrigued as to why the functionality of both menus differ ? The text-line based one indeed seems way more practical ?

 

Practical yes, but it's ugly. I prefer the nicer looking blue graphical menu.