Hw to change the title of any App... (WXP-Pro)

[umakanth]

Frenz,

Plz tell me hw to change the title of any application we R runnin to our desired name...
I mean, is there any Registry Tweak wherein we can change the TITLE of any App...

Thanx,
Uma.

[BertImmenschuh]

If you mean something like Word or WordPerfect, No. That is coded in the program.

<font color=blue>Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.</font color=blue> <font color=green>Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.</font color=green>

[report_2]

You can easily change the name of standalone executable such as defrag.exe to umakanth.exe by right clicking on the executable and selecting Rename.
It will still run as Defrag.

But not with programs that need to have their name within their registry paths like Word or Excel.

[umakanth]

Bert,
Somethng like, (Im accessing this WinGuides website thro' Windows Registry Guide 2003, so the title of thiz Guide iz Windows Registry Guide 2003 which appears on Top-Left hand corner when we open this Guide...I meant to say that one...

Thanx,
Uma.

[umakanth]

I want the title to be changed to my desired name & not the name of the FILE...

Thanx,
Uma.

[BertImmenschuh]

As I understand what you want to do, in Internet Explorer it is called 'branding' and done by ISPs. You can change that in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main Window Title key.

<font color=blue>Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.</font color=blue> <font color=green>Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.</font color=green>

[report_2]

While viewing this webpage go to IE View, Source and you will see:
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="/stylesheets/winguides.css" type="text/css"&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Windows Support Forums - Hw to change the title of any App... (WXP-Pro)&lt;/title&gt;

In my Title bar I also see:
Windows Support Forums - Hw to change the title of any App... (WXP-Pro) - Comcast

The protion that is in bold is the only part that you can change as noted by Bert. Mine was changed to read just "Comcast".
Instead of showing "Comcast" you can change it to read as "Uma" if you want so you would then see:

"Windows Support Forums - Hw to change the title of any App... (WXP-Pro) - Uma"

You can not modify the "Title" of the webpage you are viewing unless it is a page you have authored and/or have the authority/permission to change. In the later case you can name the "Title" anything you like.

[umakanth]

No report_2,

Im sorry if I mislead U...I wazn't talking abt the Title of any Website, I waz talking abt the Title of any App whatever we open...I waz asking whether any Tweak there in Windows Registry to change the Title of each App in their correspoding Registry entries?

Like, if we open any Application, each App will appear in the "TASKBAR" with a title, I wanna change that one...

Thanx,
Uma.


<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by umakanth on 01/11/05 21:49.</FONT></P>

[report_2]

Then it looks like we are back to Bert's original response of:

"If you mean something like Word or WordPerfect, No. That is coded in the program."

Additionally most, if not all, license agreements include a line similar to the following:
"You may not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify or create derivative works of the Product"

[umakanth]

So, seemz like there iz no tweak in Windows Registry for thiz...
Thanx report_2 & Bert...
Thanx to both of U for Ur valuable responses...

Uma.

[BertImmenschuh]

You're welcome.

<font color=blue>Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.</font color=blue> <font color=green>Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.</font color=green>