Windows XP Start Up Button Tweak
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This article will show you step by step how to change the start button text for windows.
Step 1:
First download reshack from (http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/).
Start reshack, and open c:Windows/explorer.exe
WARNING: explorer.exe is not something to play with if you have no idea on what your doing
Step 2:
Open the folder String Table
Expand 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 to File >> Save As... >> Explorer2.exe
Press OK
Step 4:
Now open up the regedit (Start >> Run >> Regedit.exe)
Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinLogon
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:
Next 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 (In our case Explorer2.exe)
Start it, and Tada, your start button is changed until you change it back. :)
You can repeat this process as many times as you wish. Any problems, just reboot and it should all return back to normal.
If you find any errors please PM me and I will make corrections.
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If you want this to stick, reboot into safe mode and backup explorer.exe, before
replacing it with your new, explorer.exe (explorer2.exe)
You can mess with a lot of stuff like this on XP if you know how. My advice is just
be careful. You can really fuck up your system.
Also, if you do any theme-based modding, you're going to have to re-do all you
work after a windows update, because Microsoft over writes the patched files.
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Nice! Too bad I have Vista..
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1033 is the LCID for US English it will vary from locale to locale.. think EN-GB is
2057, EN-AU is 3081 for example..
So it may not work in the current example if you are using a non EN-US version
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