Start button

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know where to change the text on the start button?
any replies would be appreciated.

janmarcus@yahoo.com

[jstolz]

This is a cut/paste from my post of July 8:

The "Click here to begin" is hard-coded into Explorer... Here's what you have to do to change the Start button's bubble help
"Click here to begin" and "Start" caption.

1. Make copy of Explorer.exe and open the COPY with a hex editor
2. Search for hex 43006C00690063006B (i.e. "C l i c k" separated by null 00 characters). There's a few--the right one is at
offset 28736
3. Replace bubble help caption with whatever 19 characters you want (separated by null characters of course)

If you don't want to change the "Start" button to say, "menu" skip to 6...

4. Search for hex 530074006100720074 ("Start" separated by null characters). The right one is at offset 28D6E.
5. Replace Start button caption with "Menu", nulling out as necessary.

6. Boot to DOS, replace original Explorer.exe with the patched copy of Explorer.exe (I suggest you first rename Explorer.exe
to Explorer.exe.ORIGINAL
7. Reboot.

By the way, I know I've posted this a couple of times... there really is a wealth of info here for those that take the time to look
for it.

Regards...

[Anonymous]

i'm not the one that posted this question the first time, but I have tried this and can't find any of the offsets or the right START, my explorer does not appear to be like yours. any suggestions
scoutt

[Plastic]

Maybe use a little utility called Tclock to change the startbutton in anything you like (only the text can also be done), plus the bitmap on the startmenu and the clock. Uses little resources, very stable, here:

http://member.nifty.ne.jp/kazubon/tclock/indexe.html

[Anonymous]

here's a program that will allow you to rename it easily. Albeit, it's much funner to tweak the reg manually. Anyways, here's the link.

http://www.softseek.com/Utilities/Taskbar_Start_Menu_and_Explorer_Enhancements/Shell_and_Desktop_Utilities/Review_19522_index.html

Enjoy !!