Change Start Button Text On XP By 2-D

[2-D]

I came across this on the almighty interwebs. I summed it down and took my own screenshots.

First and foremost, download Recourse Hacker, it is a "freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems."

Download (http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/)

Step One - Modifying Explorer.exe

Explorer.exe is located on X:\Windows. X being your drive letter.

First step is to make a backup of Explorer.exe. Highlight Explorer.exe, press Control C, go to your desktop, and press Control V.

Open up ResHacker.exe. Go to File>Open. go to X:\Windows, Open Explorer.exe.

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Click + on String Table, And go down to number 37, and click +, click 1033.

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On line 578, it says "Start". Take out the word Start only, keep the quotations. Put in what you want.

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Click Compile Script. Go to File > Save As... And save it as something like "Explorer2D.exe"

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Save.

Step 2 – Modifying the Registry

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Go to Start > Run. Type in Regedit. Click Ok.

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ Winlogon

Double Click Shell on the right side.

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Type in the file you saved in step one, for me it was Explorer2D.exe. Press OK.

Now you can either log off, and log back on, restart, or end task to explorer in the task managers processes.

If you did it through task manager, which is the fastest way in my opinion, go back to the applications tab, and click New Task..

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Type in your new explorer name. If My Documents comes up, and/or the taskbar didnt come up with the new text, you did it wrong.

Note: You need to have the Windows XP theme on for it to work.


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~ 2-D

[Exilement]

Clever, but useless..

[Poutine Salad]

Lol, that's teh secks. If I was cool, I'd do that. But I'm not.

[2-D]

Everything is useless.

[lethalbunnyv2]

lolz

That's awesomely clever.

[2-D]

You can also edit other shit with that program, and you can edit icons, etc etc.

[LN3uq]

Waitwaitwaitwait.

Tell me why I'm going to do this, again?

[lethalbunnyv2]

So you'd have a cooler start button, fewl.

[2-D]

Waitwaitwaitwait.

Tell me why I'm going to do this, again?
Just for the hell of it.


I have it on, but i dont use the XP skin, i use other skins, yaaaaaaaaa..y...

[Deathwish]

Saw it on criticalsecurity.net i think.

Nice tut if i could be bothered id do it.

[Überschall]

yeah, if I wouldnt be so damn lazy, I'd do it, nice tut anyways.

[Wtf]

i cant find regedit,in mha comp..

[Exilement]

Everything is useless.

Touche.

Honestly though it seems like a lot more work than it's worth.

[2-D]

i cant find regedit,in mha comp..
Run > Regedit.

Its on everyones computer, unless you deleted it.