Today I will tell you how to replace the "start" text on start button in XP with you own name or your text of choice.
Requirements:
AND RESTART YOUR COMPUTER.
Requirements:
- Windows XP
- ResHacker
- A little computer knowledge
Procedure:
- First make a backup of "C:\Windows\explorer.exe"!!!!!
- Second you will have to have Resource Hacker.
- Next, delete the explorer.exe file in C:\Windows\system32\DLLCache.
- Open up ResHacker.
- In ResHacker, open C:\Windows\explorer.exe and locate the folders 37 and 38 under String Table.
- Within each folder, click on 1033 and change the word "start" to "Your-Text"
- (that is 15 spaces you need them so that the new start button will be the right size)
- After you replace each word, click the Compile Script button.
- After that is done keep ResHacker open and don't save yet.
- Hold down CTRL+ALT+DEL and click the Processes tab, locate explorer.exe and click End Process.
- Go back into ResHacker and save the explorer.exe file.
- If you recieve any warning message from windows to stop playing with windows, just cancel it and proceed.
- Then go back into the Task Manager(CTRL+ALT+DEL) and go to File>New Task(Run...) and type in
- C:\Windows\explorer.exe and click OK. The start button should display your changed text.
- Then open up C:\Windows\system32\Restore\filelist.xml in a text editor and add the following line right before the "<REC>%windir%\system.ini</REC>" line:
AND RESTART YOUR COMPUTER.
Strictly follow all the steps otherwise you will mess up your windows installation and/or the process will not succeed.
In case of any questions leave a message below and I will get to you asap.
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