How to change the Windows kernel

The core of the system can be changed in Device Manager - properties in Device Computer.
It should be noted that the effects of installing the wrong kernel unpredictable. Most likely your computer just stops to load in all modes.

To prevent this you can pìdredaguvavši boot.ini. Only need to duplicate work item menu choice OS, for example,
multi (0) disk (0) rdisk (0) partition (1) WINDOWS = “Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect
and attribute after / fastdetect following options:
/ Kernel = ntoskchk.exe /hal=halchk.dll
as well as WINDOWS System32 directory backup your kernel and HAL.
Copy the ntoskrnl. exe in the ntoskchk. exe and hal. dll in the halchk file.
In addition, you must consider one subtlety. Probably due to the fact that when installing the wrong kernel XP millet hangs, now the entire list of available kernels do not appear in the window changes to the driver. Thus, the situation is possible when you know exactly what the kernel is supported by the system, but the system does not install it. In this case, will have to do it manually.
For a start, locate in the windowsinf file called hal. inf. Examine it to find out what files and where rewritten when changing the kernel.
Usually only overwrite hal.dll, which hal names which correspond to the kernel, you can see from the list:
· Standard PC – hal.dll
· Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) PC-halacpi.dll
· ACPI Uniprocessor PC - halaacpi.dll
· ACPI Multiprocessor PC-halmacpi.dll
· Compaq SystemPro Multiprocessor or 100% Compatible – halsp.dll
· MPS Uniprocessor PC-halapic.dll
· MPS Multiprocessor PC-halmps.dll
After that remains to make a corresponding file with the WindowsDriverCachei386driver .cab, copy it to Windowssystem32 and refer to it in the boot.ini.
After downloading, you can change the list of the kernel appears.
Instead of turning off the computer restarts, what to do?
Clean boot Windows XP