hw to chatnge the WinXp boot screen?
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Vishal Gupta
Microsoft MVP
Boot screen is actually a file ntoskrnl.exe, which is situated in %windir%\system32\ folder.
There r many ways to change it!
A.) D/l a readymade ntoskrnl.exe file from net, like from *www.themexp.org
Then
1. Backup (copy) the file %windir%\system32\ntoskrnl.exe (most likely C:\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe).
2. Download the ntoskrnl.exe (most of the time it'll be a zip file) to your computer.
3. Extract ntoskrnl.exe to a directory other than %windir%\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.
B.) U can use s/w, which can automatically do the same.
Like Style Xp: *www.tgtsoft.com/
Boot Skin: *www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/
C.) There is nother way!
Create a 16 color (4-bit) 640x480 bitmap, name it Boot.bmp and put it in c:\windows. then edit the boot.ini file. add /bootlogo /noguiboot to the entry of ur XP.
There r many ways to change it!
A.) D/l a readymade ntoskrnl.exe file from net, like from *www.themexp.org
Then
1. Backup (copy) the file %windir%\system32\ntoskrnl.exe (most likely C:\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe).
2. Download the ntoskrnl.exe (most of the time it'll be a zip file) to your computer.
3. Extract ntoskrnl.exe to a directory other than %windir%\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.
B.) U can use s/w, which can automatically do the same.
Like Style Xp: *www.tgtsoft.com/
Boot Skin: *www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/
C.) There is nother way!
Create a 16 color (4-bit) 640x480 bitmap, name it Boot.bmp and put it in c:\windows. then edit the boot.ini file. add /bootlogo /noguiboot to the entry of ur XP.
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