Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Renaming the start button


If you want to rename your start button, the first thing you'll need is hex editor.
My preference is UltraEdit
The steps are:-

  • Copy the \windows\explore.exe file to a new name (e.g. explorer_1.exe)
  • With the hex editor, open that file and go to offset 412b6
  • You will see the word start with blanks between each letter
  • Edit it be any 5 characters or less
  • Save the file
  • Boot to DOS
  • Copy the existing c:\windows\explorer.exe to explorer.org
  • Copy explorer_1.exe to explorer.exe
  • You will also need to replace the explorer.exe in the c:\windows\system32\dllcache file as well with the new one.
Note: If your partition is NTFS then you cannot access the files from DOS:


  • Start Regedit
  • Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon.
  • Change the value of Shell from Explorer.exe to explorer_1.exe

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