How To Change Start Button Name in Window

Changing Start button text in Windows XP

(Estimated Time: 5-15 minutes approx, Level= Advanced User)

I always wanted to change the text of my Start Button ever since I have been using
the Windows operating System. It has always been the most difficult of tasks
to accomplish with very risky and lengthy activities involving alteration of
Windows registry. In fact I could never find of any way to change the Start button
text without actually altering the registry values. (If you know of one
please let me know so that it can be posted here for others to know, also
please let me know if there is a software that does it automatically)

Well the simplest and the least time consuming way of changing
the Start button text is described below:

Step 1:
Create a system restore point just incase if something goes wrong you can roll
back to the original settings. Make a back up copy of explorer.exe in a safe place,
maybe in a different folder.


Step 2:
You would need to download a small freeware utility called Resource Hacker.
"Resource HackerTM is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and
extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res).
It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on
Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems." excerpt
from Resource Hacker's Website


Click here to download Resource Hacker
Step 3:Open Resource Hacker utility. Click on File ---> Open. Type "explorer.exe" in the text box.

Step 4:
Expand String Table ---> 37 from the tree view and click on 1033 as shown in the figure below

Step 5:
From the right window next to where start is written in front of 578 edit the
text to what you want on your start button. For example I edited it to webtopsolution
as shown in the figure below:

Step 6:
Click on the "Compile Script" button on top of the right window.
Now click on File ---> Save as ----> webtopsolution.exe as shown
in Figure Below:

Step 7: Open registry editor by clicking on Start --->
Run and typing "regedit" at the text box. Navigate to HKEY_Local_Machine ->
Software -> Microsoft -> Windows NT -> CurrentVersion -> Winlogon

From the right pane double click on shell and replace "explorer.exe"
with "webtopsolution.exe" as shown in figure below and then exit registry editor:

Step 8: Restart your computer to see the changes.

For problems or questions regarding this web contact: webtopsolution@gmail.com