[ruler]

Change XP Boot Screen

If you would like to change your boot up screen follow the directions below.
These instructions assume that you have a place to download the boot screen from the net.

1. Backup (copy) the file %windir%\system32\ntoskrnl.exe (most likely C:\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe - the boot screen)
2. Download the .zip to your computer
3. Extract ntoskrnl.exe to a directory other than %windir%\system32 (most likely C:\windows\system32)
4. Reboot your computer into Safe Mode (hit F8 before the boot screen) or into true DOS (from a boot disk)
5. Overwrite the file %windir%\system32\ntoskrnl.exe (which should have been backed up) with the extracted exe
6. Reboot your computer as you normally would

[Computer Spec]

I would be to scared to try anything liek this as I dont know that much about computers in great detail. I would be scared that I would never be able to boot up again, or are these instruction quite easy? Can you do any damage?

[ruler]

There are only 6 easy to follow steps but as it says it is a fix. This does work because i have tried it out and thats why i wrote it for all to see :)
You will be supprised at how many people have problems like this which sadly leads to formatting and then reinstalling XP :cry: If i knew i was going to reformat i would be happy to try this out first as it will save a lot of time 8)