Long Windows Vista Boot Time

Just installed Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 via Boot Camp, all went well with the installation but whenever I boot into Windows it sits at a screen with a black background and a blinking white line at the top left corner. It lasts about a minute and then boots into Windows. Anyone know why it does this?

Blame it on EFI and having to load emulated BIOS and pretend it is on Master Boot Record drive.
I wanted to see what a PC boot process was like, and it varied by motherboard and BIOS (and even what chipset drivers, how many addresses for disk drives and attached devices).
For me the only fix - wish I hadn't applied the one EFI firmware, all it did was add 30 seconds to Windows (improves compatibility for booting Windows on Macs was all it said) was to assemble a comparable PC hardware. About 45 seconds though. Still slower than booting OS X is.

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