Changing Start Button text in Win XP

Here i have tried to explained how you can change the Start Button text in Windows XP. Before having to start it the things we have to do can be summed up as follows. First of all we have to configure the explorer.exe file which is responsible for displaying the text on your Start button. Secondly we have to do some registry edit so as to make windows load the configured explorer.exe during startup.

 

 

Note: Before having to configure explorer.exe file must make a backup of it.

Here also i have used Resource Hacker to open the explorer.exe file which you can find it in the C:\WINDOWS\ folder. Open it by using Resource Hacker software. Click to Download it. Navigate to

  String Table 37 and then to 1033 and change the text at 578 to what ever you want to change. Just compile the script by using the Compile Script button on the top and save the file as anand.exe for example in the folder C:\WINDOWS\ folder. Now we have successfully saved the configured explorer.exe with the name anand.exe.

 

Now our next step is to make a registry entry so as to make our configured file run during startup. Follow the following steps to make a registry enter. Go to Start Run type regedit and click ok. This will open a registry editor. Navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\  then double click on Shell at the right hand side to cahnge the Value Data to anand.exe (this is the same exe file which we have saved). And all you have done.....!

 

 

Just Restart or Logoff and loging to have a changed text on your Start Button.