Is there a way to get rid of the animation right before the login screen? It's a waste of 10 seconds that my SSD isn't using to load the OS.
It doesn't make a difference to boottime anyway, but if you really want to the easiest way is to delete or rename bootres.dll.
It's actually doing stuff behind the scenes (loading drivers, enumerating hardware). It's not showing the animation just for fun. Anyways: Start-search-msconfig-boot-Check "No GUI Boot"