Are you bored of old tiring “START” button on the left corner of your XP desktop???
With a few modifications in the Windows Registry, you can replace the “start” text with anything you like.

STEP 1 – Modify explorer.exe

We are going to change Explorer.exe, the backbone of your Windows XP. Everything should be safe as long as you follow these steps closely.
As explorer is a binary file, we need a special tool to modify it.
So, download Resource Hacker

Now, go to C:\windows\ and make a new folder abc.

Once you have installed resource hacker, Open file Explore.exe ( C:\windows\explorer.exe) from resource hacker only.
. And navigate to String Table -> 37 -> 1033. The “start” value is on line 4, after the 578. Change the text “start” to anything you want, making sure you keep the quotes.In this example.As shown in the pic I have changed the text to Mayank.

Press the Compile Script button to make Resource Hacker put together the code.

Now click File and Save the script as explorer.exe into C:\WINDOWS\abc\

Note: make sure you choose Save AS, NOT just save!!

Step 2 – Change the Registry

By now, you have a modified explorer sitting in the /windows/abc, so we need to tell Windows to use that one, instead of the original one.
So, here we go:

-Click start
-Click Run
-type regedit

in the registry editor window that opens, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ Winlogon and look for the registry entry “shell”. Click it.

Change the explorer.exe to abc/explorer.exe

You’re done!!!
Enjoy your new custom Windows XP start button!
All you have to do now is reboot ….
Enjoy!!!

Please leave comment if you liked the post.

Technorati Tags: trick, windows, xp