"Change the Start Button Text in Window XP'"

""Change the Start Button Text in Window XP"?

Stage 1:

Create a system restore point just incase if something goes wrong you can roll back to the primary settings. Make a back up copy of explorer.exe in a safe place, maybe in a different folder. 

Stage 2:

You would need to download a small freeware utility called Resource Hacker. "Resource HackerTM is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems." excerpt from Resource Hacker's Website



Step 3:

Open Resource Hacker utility. Click on File ---> Open. Type "explorer.exe" in the text box.

Step 4:

Expand String Table ---> 37 from the tree view and click on 1033

Step 5:

From the right window next to where start is written in front of 578 edit the text to what you want on your start button. For example I edited it to GDDon

Step 7:
Open registry editor by clicking on Start ---> Run and typing "regedit" at the text box. Navigate to HKEY_Local_Machine -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows NT -> CurrentVersion -> Winlogon

From the right pane double click on shell and replace "explorer.exe" with "GDDon.exe" and then exit registry editor


Step 8: Restart your computer to see the changes. 

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