Wednesday, March 25, 2009

How to rename Start button in Window xp

First method that requires little hard work and in this all is done by u so we are going to modify explorer.exe file using tool known as Resource Hacker. Click Here to download.
The first step is to make a backup copy of the file explorer.exe located at C:\Windows\explorer. Place it in a folder somewhere on your hard drive where it will be safe. Start Resource Hacker and open explorer.exe located at C:\Windows\explorer.exe
The category we are going to be using is String Table. Expand it by clicking the plus sign then navigate down to and expand string 37 followed by highlighting 1033. If you are using the Classic Layout rather than the XP Layout, use number 38. The right hand pane will display the stringtable as shown in Fig. 2. We’re going to modify item 578, currently showing the word “start” just as it displays on the current Start button.
There is no magic here. Just double click on the word “start” so that it’s highlighted, making sure the quotation marks are not part of the highlight. They need to remain in place, surrounding the new text that you’ll type. Go ahead and type your new entry.

Click Compile Script and then save the altered file using the Save As command on the File Menu. Do not use the Save command – Make sure to use the Save As command and choose a name for the file. See Fig. 04. Save the newly named file to C:\Windows. i used crypto.exe
Now that the modified explorer.exe has been created it’s necessary to modify the registry so the file will be recognized when the user logs on to the system. u can access registry by going to Run type regedit hit enter.
Navigate to following key : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ Winlogon

In the right pane (above figure), double click the Shell entry to open the Edit String dialog box as shown in Fig. below In Value data: line, enter the name that was used to save the modified explorer.exe file. Click OK.,
Now just close all windows rboot ur system to see changes.

Method 2.

Just use a simple utility StartBtn Renamer to do this all.
For Download Click Here

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