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Rename Start Button

Posted by raj Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Step 1:

Create a system restore point just incase if something goes wrong you can roll back to the original settings. Make a back up copy of explorer.exe in a safe place, maybe in a different folder.

Step 2:

You would need to download a small freeware utility called Resource Hacker. "Resource HackerTM 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 resource hacker frm here...
]http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/reshack.zip[

Step 3:

Open Resource Hacker utility. Click on File ---> Open. Type "explorer.exe" in the text box.


Step 4:

Expand String Table ---> 37 from the tree view and click on 1033

Step 5:

From the right window next to where start is written in front of 578 edit the text to what you want on your start button.

Step 6:

Click on the "Compile Script" button on top of the right window. Now click on File ---> Save as ----> wintipz.exe

Step 7:
Open registry editor by clicking on Start ---> Run and typing "regedit" at the text box. Navigate to HKEY_Local_Machine -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows NT -> CurrentVersion -> Winlogon

From the right pane double click on shell and replace "explorer.exe" with "wintipz.exe"

Step 8:

Restart your computer to see the changes.

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