Sunday, 27 March 2011

0 How to change "start" text on start button of XP

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:

  • Windows XP
  • ResHacker
  • A little computer knowledge
Procedure:
  1. First make a backup of "C:\Windows\explorer.exe"!!!!!
  2. Second you will have to have Resource Hacker. 
  3. Next, delete the explorer.exe file in C:\Windows\system32\DLLCache. 
  4. Open up ResHacker.
  5. In ResHacker, open C:\Windows\explorer.exe and locate the folders 37 and 38 under String Table.
  6. Within each folder, click on 1033 and change the word "start" to "Your-Text"
  7. (that is 15 spaces you need them so that the new start button will be the right size)
  8. After you replace each word, click the Compile Script button.
  9. After that is done keep ResHacker open and don't save yet.
  10. Hold down CTRL+ALT+DEL and click the Processes tab, locate explorer.exe and click End Process.
  11. Go back into ResHacker and save the explorer.exe file.
  12. If you recieve any warning message from windows to stop playing with windows, just cancel it and proceed.
  13. Then go back into the Task Manager(CTRL+ALT+DEL) and go to File>New Task(Run...) and type in 
  14. C:\Windows\explorer.exe and click OK. The start button should display your changed text.
  15. 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: 
               <REC>%systemroot%\explorer.exe</REC>

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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