To rename the start button, you will need a hex editor.
My preference is UltraEdit

1. Copy the \windows\explore.exe file to a new name (e.g. explorer_1.exe)
2. With the hex editor, open that file and go to offset 412b6
3. You will see the word start with blanks between each letter
4. Edit it be any 5 characters or less
5. Save the file
6. Boot to DOS
7. Copy the existing c:\windows\explorer.exe to explorer.org
8. Copy explorer_1.exe to explorer.exe
9. You will also need to replace the explorer.exe in the c:\windows\system32\dllcache file as well with the new one.

Note: If the partition is NTFS and you can't access the files from DOS:

1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon.
3. Change the value of Shell from Explorer.exe to explorer_1.exe

This post has been edited by microscopic^earthling: Nov 1 2005, 06:12 AM

ooh, cool! I never think of things like that.

so that means you can do that with... a pretty much unlimited number of programs?
Yes! *rubs hands together* I've got some fun planned.

You will probably find that my question is really stupid, but ... How do you boot to dos on a Windows XP machine, with a NTFS system disk ?
Yordan

I think it's explained in the second part:


This looks like a pretty neat thing. But I'm using HEdit and offset 0x412b6 doesn't have start, it has some silly characters. Does it differ for sp2?

It works!! Nice!! I put my "Start" to "Sleep", because my start menu is taking too much time to appear!!

How much of a special difference will it make.?

I really don't care about "Start" button, but having the word Start is quite self explantory, although if I could possibly chnage it to "Go"... or maybe an animation, "1","2","3", GO.

How would I be able to do that?

Hehehe I used to do this kind of thing (changing programs' texts) with Ultraedit since it's version 5.0.
But later I found out it was generally much easier to do (along with other more things, like editing real program resources) with Resource Hacker. It's a free program, just run a Google search for it. You won't regret.

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Renaming The Start Button In Windows XP

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-reply by Asim

One thing to remember is that from a programming standpoint the start button is nothing more than another window and can be manipulated as such. Using a utility such as Winspector (http://www.windows-spy.com/), you can see that it is a button class that is inherited from Shell_TrayWnd. Using the Windows API you can capture and send events to the window which opens an entire new world of options.

After some research I found a great article explaining this in detail and as a bonus has a free program that does it for you (http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/StartButtonRenamer.aspx). You can also break the limit of five characters and even add symbols that are in the Unicode library. This may be the only way but I don’t see what is keeping you from grabbing the button text with the Windows API and then setting a new string.

His point exactly
Lol