Showing posts with label Change the name of Start Button. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Change the name of Start Button. Show all posts

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Change the name of Start Button

Renaming The Start Button

To rename the start button, you will need a hex editor.
My preference is UltraEdit

Copy the \windows\explore.exe
file to a new name (e.g. explorer_1.exe)
With the hex editor, open that
file and go to offset 412b6
You will see the word start with
blanks between each letter
Edit it be any 5 characters or less
Save the file
Boot to DOS
Copy the existing c:\windows\explorer.exe
 to explorer.org
Copy explorer_1.exe to explorer.exe
You will also need to replace the explorer.exe
in the 
c:\windows\system32\dllcache file as well with the new one.
Note: If the partition is NTFS and you can't
access the files from DOS:

Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft
\ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon.

Change the value of Shell from Explorer.exe
to explorer_1.exe