XP Boot Screens
PLEASE NOTE: We cannot take any responsibility for changes you make to your computer. Installing files and making changes is at your own risk.
XP Boot Screens are the screens you see while XP is loading up.
Changing them does require some 'messing' about, so should not be tried unless you know what you are doing.
- Backup your entire PC - burn all of your important files to disk or CD
- Even if you skip the above step be sure to backup the current boot screen - ntoskrnl.exe file (Probably in c:\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
- Download whichever file you like and copy/extract the new ntoskrnl.exe file to any directory other than the one above
- Reboot your computer into 'Safe Mode' (Hitting F8 before the boot screen does this)
- Copy the new ntoskrnl.exe file to the original directory
- Reboot the computer again as you normally would