How To Change The Start Button

How To Change The Start Button

There Are Many Ways To Change The Start Button Text, But This One Is REALLY Simple. In This Tut, I Will Show You How To Change The explorer.exe file (the program with the Start button and the task bar) and how to change dialog files and control panel files located in the system32 directory.

Allright! For Starters, You Will Need A Program Called ResHacker (many of you are already familiar with), you can download it here.

Okay, First You Have To Make A Backup File Of explorer.exe — Located In C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe

Then Open Up ResHacker, and Then Click File -> Open. Open explorer.exe

On The Left, You Will See A List Of Folders Starting With Bitmap.

Then Double Click String Table
And Then The Folder Named 37
Then The Thing Called 1033

Then On The Right, You Will See Something Like This

STRINGTABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
{
578, “start”
579, “There was an internal error and one of the windows you were using has been closed.”
580, “Restrictions”
581, “This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.”
590, “Hiding your inactive notification icons…”
591, “To see the hidden icons, click this button.”
}

Look At Where It Says “start”. You Can Change It To Anything You Want. (Just Make Sure It Has The Quotes).

Then Click File -> Save As ..
If You Wanted To Change The Name Of The File, Then Just Change It And Open Up RegEdit. ( Start -> Run Then type in “regedit” without quotes)

In Regedit, go to

Go To HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
On The Right, Double Click Shell and change it to whatever you named your new explorer.exe

Logoff and Log Back In

OR………..

Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete
Then Click Proccess and End The explorer.exe Proccess and Open The New explorer.exe file.

Thats All You Need To Know To Change The Start Button.

BUT…………….

If You Wan’t To Know More, Then Keep Reading

In ResHacker, Try To Click Other Folders And The Other Files And Change The Texts

For Example: On The Folder Called 19, There Are Strings That Say Stuff Like
“Opens the My Documents folder, where you can store letters, reports, notes, and other kinds of documents.” — That Is The Text That Pops Up When You RollOver The My Documents Folder. If You Change That, Then It Will Also Change When You RollOver The Folder.

If You Change Other Things, The Same Things Will Happen.

Now Click The Folder That Says Dialog
You Can Change Dialog Files Thats Explorer.exe Has THe Same Way

You Can Also Open .cpl files (Contron Panel Files) That Are Located In The C:\WINDOWS\system32\ Folder.
The Editing Is The Same.

the end.