Boot UI Tuner
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;
- to disable whole modern boot UI and turn it into legacy mode.
You may see it in action on the following video:
I would definately recommend
Boot UI Tuner is free portable software and does not require to be installed. It is available for Windows 8 x86 and Windows x64..