Friday, October 24, 2008

How to change text in start menu button

It's not too difficult.To change text on start button we have to edit
"explorer.exe" which locate in Windows folder.To do this it's better
to have editor,Becouse it minimize our effort. SO i suggest "Resource
hacker".You may find it from http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/ or serch google for it.

1)First of all make a backup copy of "explorer.exe"
2)Run Resource Hacker and click on File-->open and open explorer.exe
Now you will see something like this.


3)Click on +sign to expand the "String table",Then click on "37"
4)In right side 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."
}

5)Substitute "start" with any word you like(leve double quotes.don't
delete them)in my case I substitute it with "CYBERWORLD".
see bellow figure.

6)Ok. Now hit on "compile script" button.And wait a second.
7)Windows do not allow you to save changes to explorer.exe.(If you see
nothing ,even error message when you hit on save.but windows do not allow changes)
so save as it with other name and put it on windows folder.
i.e explorermax.exe

7)Press windows+R key combination for RUN dialog box and type regedit .hit enter
Now you got registry editer.

8)navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ Winlogon

Double click on "shell" entry.It will open edit entry dialog box.
in value data field enter name of customized explorer.exe's name
in my case it is "explorermax.exe.then click ok.exit from registry editer.


*you have to either restart computer or log of and again log on computer
to apply the changes.Thats all.