Hey everyone. In this tutorial, I’m going to explain you how to change the text of your START button if you are running on Windows XP operating system.
Step 1
The first step to do is modifying the explorer.exe file. The file is located in C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe or whatever your Windows is installed in. To edit it, we’re going to use ResHack (Resource Hacker), it’s a freeware tool which allows you to view, modify, edit, delete Windows executables.
Download link of ResHack:
http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/tools/ResHack.zip
Okay, now before we continue make a backup of explorer.exe. Save it somewhere else in a safe folder in case you mess it up.
Now, start ResHacker and open explorer.exe file which is located at C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe.
Navigate to the “String Table” category and expand it by clicking the “+” sign. Then navigate down to 37 and expand it by clicking the “+” sign which is followed by highlighting 1033. If you are using the classic theme of XP rather than the XP Layout, then use the number 38. We’re going to modify item 578, currently showing the word “start” just as it displays on the current Start button.
Double click on the word “start” and it will be highlighted. Make sure the quotation marks are not highlighted, because they need to remain there. Now go ahead and type a new name for the start button.
You’ll notice that after the new text string has been entered the Compile Script button that was grayed out is now active. 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. Save the newly named file to C:\Windows.
Step 2
The second also the last step is modifying the registry.
MAKE SURE YOU TAKE A BACKUP BEFORE DOING ANY CHANGES IN YOUR REGISTRY
Well, now since we created a new text for the START button, it’s necessary to modify the registry so the file will be recognized when the user logs on their computer.
Open the register -> START > Run > regedit
Other way to open it is by pressing Windows Key + R and type regedit.
Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
On the right side, double click the Shell entry to open the string edit dialog box. In Value data: line, enter the name that you used to save the modified explorer.exe file and click OK.
Close the Registry Editor and we’re done.
To see the changes, either log off your computer and log in back or restart your system! If you did everything as it says in the tutorial, the Start button will have a new name.
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