Windows displays a start-up animation during the Windows portion of the boot process. This animation can only be seen when you are connected to the virtual machine console, and requires additional vSphere resources to display, which is why it should be disabled. The following steps outline how to disable the Windows boot animation:
- From an elevated Windows Command Prompt, load the msconfig.exe application.
- Select the Boot tab.
- Under Boot options, check the No GUI boot and Base video checkboxes, as shown in the following screenshot. Click on OK to finalize the changes:
