ViRuaL

May 12 2005, 09:14 PM

Personally, I love this program I made for myself. What the following code will allow you to do is change the text of your start button (Duh). You can make it whatever you want, your name, a hobby, or even do some extra programming and get it to randomly cycle through captions every 30 seconds or so .

Here is all the code you'll need:

CODE

Private Const WM_SETTEXT = &HC
Private Const WM_GETTEXT = &HD
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
Private Declare Function FindWindowEx Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowExA" (ByVal hWnd1 As Long, ByVal hWnd2 As Long, ByVal lpsz1 As String, ByVal lpsz2 As String) As Long
Private Declare Function SendMessageSTRING Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, ByVal lParam As String) As Long

Public Sub SetStartCaption(str As String)
   Dim StartBar As Long
   Dim StartBarText As Long
   Dim sCaption As String
   StartBar = FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", vbNullString)
   StartBarText = FindWindowEx(StartBar, 0&, "button", vbNullString)
   sCaption = Left(str, 5)
   SendMessageSTRING StartBarText, WM_SETTEXT, 256, sCaption
   Exit Sub
   End Sub

All this code does is find the start button in the explorer process, then there's a little code to send a string to it to change it's text. To use this, create a TextBox, where the user can enter what he wants it to be renamed to, and a command button, which the user will press to change the text.

CODE

Private Sub Command1_Click()
SetStartCaption Text1.Text
End Sub

And that's all you'll need to change your start button to whatever you want, with the restriction of about 5-6 letter words, due to size of the button. Sorry guys .

If you need any help, or want specific information about what each line does, I can fully explain to you all you need to know. Just send an e-mail to ViRuaL@gmail.com
Thanks, and I hope you enjoy playing around with this.

 

 

 

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WeaponX

Jun 22 2005, 05:45 AM

I'm no VB expert but let's see if I can help you out here.

Did you copy and paste that code into your Visual Basic main form? Just highlight the two sections of code that ViRuaL posted initially into your VB program. Then go to the GUI interface (SHIFT + F7 shortcut ) and add a command button and a textbox. No need to rename it since ViRuaL is just using the default names. Now run the VB program. It should open up a program with a textbox and a button. All you have to do is type in what you want to say in your Start button and hit the command button.

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solanky

Jul 1 2005, 03:12 AM

QUOTE(ViRuaL @ Jul 1 2005, 02:44 AM)

That's because of your OS.  Sorry, this only works with WinXP

It's my mistake friend. I have not seen the word xp in the brackets. Today only I have noticed that. Really sorry for that.
I will try this at my home where I have XP.

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runefantasy

Jul 1 2005, 03:36 AM

Nice. I'm going to try it when I get VB(removed it and forgot where I put the CD...). Can anyone give me the executable so I can run it and see? I got windows xp

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Rejected

Jul 1 2005, 06:03 AM

Sure, here you go. Don't worry about wondering if it's a virus or keylogger or whatever, I'm a mod over a trap17
www.thyelite.com/start.exe

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ChristopherJ05

Nov 27 2005, 07:48 PM

How is the code stopping it to work with win 2000 and older ?

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Logan Deathbringer

Jul 20 2005, 11:10 PM

QUOTE(Rejected @ Jul 17 2005, 12:22 AM)

=( Virual is no longer with the Astahost community, you should email him.. virual@gmail.com

Thanks for the info, I think the program is neat but I won't distribute it without his permission.

Thanks again

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runefantasy

Jul 19 2005, 05:08 AM

QUOTE(Rejected @ Jul 17 2005, 07:22 AM)

=( Virual is no longer with the Astahost community, you should email him.. virual@gmail.com

Where did he go?
Well, I still haven't had time to do anything with the code

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loganbest

Jul 19 2005, 01:16 AM

HEH hEH how did you find out about this Rejected?

lol, I can picture on TV in front of the nation saying with a serious voice "Virual is no longer with the Astahost community, you should email him.. virual@gmail.com."
yea that was pretty random leave me alone

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Rejected

Jul 17 2005, 07:22 AM

=( Virual is no longer with the Astahost community, you should email him.. virual@gmail.com

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