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.
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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!!
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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!!!
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4 Comments Received
November 8th, 2009 @1:01 pm
superb dude… i cudve never guessed this was possible…!!
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mayank Reply:
November 8th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
r u just readin…. or u actually tried this……. this works dear!!!
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November 19th, 2009 @5:07 pm
Sahii haii yaarr,,,
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mayank Reply:
November 19th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
thanx bro!!
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