Change title of Windows XP Start button (How?)


In order to achieve our goal (to change Start menu button title), it is necessary to make next two steps:
• Edit file explorer.exe
• Setting up the registry so he can accept changes which we make
File named explorer.exe is located within the folder Windows, and is necessary to edit him (modify), if you want to rename the Start button. Because it is a binary file we have to use appropriate editor. For this purpose I used editor Resource Hacker, it is very easy to edit this kind of file with this application. This is a totally free program, which you can download from here. After you download this program, unpack all the files from these archives and then run the program ResHacker, so it open explorer.exe file.
In left window you will notice information tree; expand the String 37 or 38 (string 37 relates to normal, a string of 38 classic look XP-a), depending on the result that the "appearance" (layout) Windows and is currently active on your computer, then select folder 1033. In the right panel, in line 578 you will see word “Start” (with quotes). Delete this word and in its position add the desired name(this name will appear in your start menu button), then click on the button Compile Script in the upper right corner.
In the end save changed version of explorer.exe file. After you choose to save this file add another name for example windowsxlive.exe and then save it.
Now Click on Start> Run, and in the text field type Regedit, to open the registry editor. Within the registry editor, look for the next line:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE> SOFTWARE> Microsoft> WindowsNT> CurrentVersion> Winlogon
In the right panel, locate the item entitled "Shell". Double click on it, and in the field "Value", change the name explorer.exe into widnowsxlive.exe. Close the registry editor, Logout (Log Off) from your windows account and restart computer. After raising the operating system, Windows XP, start button will have a name that you entered couple minutes ago.
If you want you can also try the same trick but with Hex Editor, to do that with Hex Editor.

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