Customizing the Start Button's Name and Icon

Subject: Customizing the Start Button's Name and Icon Tue Feb 17, 2009 12:44 pm

To change the name of the Start button: Copy EXPLORER.EXE in
your Windows directory to another directory

Start a hex editor (I've been using Diskedit from Norton)

Edit EXPLORER.EXE

Search for the string 53 00 74 00 61 00 72 00 74

This is the word Start with the letters separated by a null
character

The section you are in should also have the words
"There was an internal error..." also separated with the null
character immediately following

Now just replace the Start letters with any of your choice
(up to 5 characters only)

Exit Windows

Boot to DOS

Copy your new Explorer file over the original

To change the Start button icon:

Copy USER.EXE in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory to another
directory

Use an icon editor that can replace icons in executable
files

Edit USER.EXE and replace the flag icons with the icon of
your choice

Boot to DOS

Copy the new USER.EXE

The same can be done with NT 4.0, just the offset will be
different but the location to just before "There was an internal
error..." is the same. Shocked

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