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Changing Start Button Text


Changing Start Button Text

By ghostghost | 5108 Reads |
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Changing Your Start Button Text:

This artile will show you step by step how to change the start button text for windows. So lets get started.

Step 1:

First download reshack.

Start reshack, and open c:\Windows\explorer.exe

WARNING: explorer.exe isnt something to play with if you have no idea on what your doing

Step 2:

Open the folder String Table

Expand the folder 37 and double click on 1033.

Change the text to the right from start, to what ever you want.

Step 3:

Press compile script then go File >> Save As… >> Explorer2.exe Press OK

Step 4:

Whip open regedit (Start >> Run >> Regedit.exe) Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon

Then, where it says shell, double click and change explorer.exe to the new renamed one, which in our case is explorer2.exe

Step 5:

Press CTRL + ALT + DELETE

Go Into processes

Look for explorer.exe, click on it and press end process. If any messages pop up, say yes. This will removed your start menu.

Step 6:

Now, go File >> New Task…

Type the name of the file you saved it as (Our case Explorer2.exe)

Start it, and voila, your start button is changed until you change it back. :)

You can repeat this proccess as many times as you wish.

Any problems, just reboot and it should all return back to normal.

– saxible –

Comments
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ghost 18 years ago

You should mention messing with explorer.exe isn't something fo rthe novice. Even with the back-up copy

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ghost 18 years ago

Thx it looks so good now:p

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ghost 18 years ago

wolfmankurd: Done

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ghost 18 years ago

Not only that, you should mention the really big risks: Windows update will have problems with that, along with Service Packs and the Windows Firewall.

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ghost 18 years ago

Woah, sheesh. It was my first article, sorry it doesnt have everything

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ghost 18 years ago

saxible, this has been covered on this site atleast once and is covered elsewhere multiple times;; Check before you write something;

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ghost 18 years ago

Ah, fuck what they say, it's a great article my friend, wtg and thx :)

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ghost 18 years ago

Great article, I've been wondering how to do this for awhile, Thanks!!

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Mr_Cheese 17 years ago

tip to anyone who tries this. once you've changed it, rename the explorer2.exe to explorer.exe and rename the original exploere to "explorer_backup" just incase anything happens etc, and this means windows update and various otehr programs will be able to handle it ok.