Renaming The Start Button In Windows

Renaming The Start Button:

To rename the start button, you will need a hex editor.
My preference is UltraEdit

• 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 the partition is NTFS and you can't 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