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Windows tip: How to rename Start button
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This Windows XP/7 tip is only for advanced windows users or users with medium programming skill.
To rename the start button, you will need a hex editor. With hex editor you can see the content of compiled programs (exe or com files). For that purpose I use UltraEdit (www.ultraedit.com). To change the name of Start button in Windows follow next steps:
- Copy the \windows\explore.exe file to a new name (e.g. explorer_1.exe)
- With the hex editor, open that file and go to offset 412b6
- You will see the word start with blanks between each letter
- Edit it be any 5 characters or less (very important)
- Save the file
- Boot to DOS
- Copy the existing c:\windows\explorer.exe to explorer.org
- Copy explorer_1.exe to explorer.exe
- You will also need to replace the explorer.exe in the c:\windows\system32\dllcache file as well with the new one.
- Start Regedit
- Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon.
- Change the value of Shell from Explorer.exe to explorer_1.exe
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