CHANGING THE TEXT OF START MENU OF WINDOWS XP

      Here is a method to change the contents/text of the start menu button of windows xp to any text you like.

      Part 1

    • First you have to install latest version of software RESHACK (YOU MAY USE ANY OTHER RESOURSE MANAGER SOFTWARE) from http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/ It’s a software which shows the hidden resources of windows os:- Now you need to open up the windows explorer main file, called explorer.exe .
      • (explorer.exe is present in .\windows directory )
    • Open the ResHacker click on File and click Open, then go to My Computer and then C: and then Windows Folder, then open the explorer.exe, if for some reason you dont see you explorer.exe in there, then in the box for the file opening just type in explorer.exe .
    • Now ur Res.Hack window should be loaded.Now you should see a bunch of folders on the left side,arranged in tree structure.Now on the left side click on the ‘String Table’ folder and it expands, then go down and click on the 37 under it, and as you do that, you will see that now in your ResHack’s right side it’ll contain some text(script)There will be an button "compile script".
    • Now within these texts on right of reshack where you see the Start between the quotes "" , change that text to anything you want(this name’ll appear on start button), and spaces are allowed.
    • When you are done with prev step now the button pointed to Complie Script should be clickable, so just click that and compile script and dont close this window yet.
    • Now click on File and click ‘Save As’ in the save box you should see ‘explorer.exe’ but dont save it as that, you can do but we ofcourse want back up, just incase something goes wrong, so save this as someting else and make sure you put .exe after it and no space, i recommded saving it as ‘’ Explorera.exe" its easy to remember and better. so type Explorera.exe in (delete the explorer.exe from the box first) and click OK. and you are done with the first half.
    • U have 2 files explorer.exe that is in perfect condition as previous.Another file that we’ve created by editing explorer.exe is Explorera.exe. This Explorera.exe is our hacked version of explorer.exe which is the main file of explorer.

    Part 2

    • In this part you will be telling you explorer to pick up the right explorer for your start button that you just used, so just remember wat you saved it as, i recomended ‘Explorera.exe’ but i dont know what you put.Now we will edit the registry of our windows xp.

      • Registry editing
    • Go to your Start and select RUN and type in ‘regedit‘ and when the window opens you will see the title as Registry Editor, so you are in the right place. now in the left as before you should see some expandable files like tree structure of folders.
    • Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE should be the third one under MY COMPUTER, after expanding that, find SOFTWARE and expand it, after that find Microsoft and expand it, after find Windows NT and expand it, after that find CurrentVersion and expand it, then find Winlogon and expand it.
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows NT > CurrentVersion > Winlogon
    • Dont click anyting under winlogon just click winlogon, and you should see similar stuff of files to the right.
    • Now scroll down in that right side and find SHELL and indicated and right click it and click on Modify, then you will see another small box and it should have two typing in boxed inside it, the first one should show Shell and should be locked, and next one there should be a box titled as Value Data and under it u should see typed in ‘explorer.exe’ so delete the explorer.exe and put you explorer name in it, if you had named yours Explorera.exe then type that or if had a custom one then type that in and make sure to put .exe at the end of it, after you have then click OK and now you can exit the registry editor so X that out.
    • Now you are done with. Restart pc. Now your start-menu will have the contents that you have set via reshack.

      • TROUBLESHOOT
    • If error occurs after restart then we’ve specified wrong explorer file in the registry then it won’t open.After restarting if some errors pop up EXPLORER NOT LOADED or something to the effect of that, so this means you didnt edit you registry correct for your explorer. (That is the explorera.exe is either absent or you had by mistake typed any other name in the registry)
    • Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE then click on FILE and click on NEW and type in ‘regedit’ and your registery should open again, then
    • just go through the following pattern:
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows NT > CurrentVersion > Winlogon
    • Under Winlogon find Shell (on the right hand side), then right click it, and click Modify and at the same place where you typed in your explorer, take that of and put in ‘explorer.exe’ back in and press OK then restart your computer.
      • NEXT STEP
    • Phew!No more steps...u have successfully changed the startmenu contents.....