Tired of the boring old “start” button at the bottom left corner of your Windows XP’s monitor? Want something new to replace iit?.With a few modifications in the Windows Registry, you can replace the “start” text with anything you like.
To do follow these steps...
1.Modify explorer.exe
  • As explorer is a binary file, we need a special tool to modify it. One of the best ones for this purpose is Resource Hacker.
  • As always before changing anything. you want to back up.
  • Fire up Resource Hacker and find the same explorer.exe.


  • Navigate to String Table -> 37 -> 1033.
  • Change the text “start” to anything you want, making sure you keep the quotes.
  • Press the Compile Script button to make Resource Hacker put together the code. 
  • Now click File and Save the script as explorer.exe. into C: \WINDOWS\inf or another C: \WINDOWS subfolder.

2.Changing the registry.
  • In the registry editor window that opens, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ Winlogon and look for the registry entry “shell”. Click it.
  • Change the explorer.exe to inf/explorer.exe or whereever you saved the modified explorer.

Disclaimer: Everything here is for informational purposes only.