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That method is just too complicated and has a lot of unnecessary steps. After experimenting with several different ideas that I came up with, I discovered an even better way to change the Start button text. Using my method, you will not have to mess with the system file protection at all, boot into Safe mode, or even be limited to five characters on the Start button. Soundgood? Okay, let’s get started:
1. First, you will need to start up the Resource Hacker. If you donot have a copy of Resource Hacker, you can download a copy fromwww.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker.
Once you have Resource Hacker started up, go to the next step.
2. You are going to want to open up the Windows Explorer main file, called explorer.exe.This file is stored in the C:\Windows directory.To open the file up, click the file menubar item and select Open, then just navigate over to the Windows directory and select explorer.exe.
3. When explorer.exe is loaded, you should see a bunch of folders on the left side of the screen. Expand the String Table folder and then expand the 37 folder and select 1033.
4. You will not see a bunch of text on the right side of the screen. Locate where it says Start, and replace it with the text that you want to use. You are going to replace "START"it with “YOUR TEXT HERE” Make sure that you only enter your text between the quotes.
5. Next, you will have to click the Compile Script button.
6. Now, you have to save the file that you just edited and recompiled. Click the File menubar item again and this time select Save As. Then save the file with a name other thanexplorer.exe. I suggest you call it “ExplorerHacked.exe” Make sure that you add the .exe to the end of the file name or else it will not work.
7. You are now finished hacking the Explorer file. You can close the Resource Hacker. Now you just have to tell Windows to use your new Explorer file the next time you log in.Todo this, click the Start button and select Run.
8. Type regedit in the box and click OK.
9. Next, when the Registry Editor is loaded, expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,SOFTWARE, Microsoft,Windows NT, CurrentVersion, and Winlogon.
10. Inside the WinLogon folder, you will want to look for the Shell entry. Right-click it and select Modify.
12. Type in the name of the file that you saved in Step 6. I used “ExplorerHacked.exe,” so that is what I will replace all of the text with.
13. When you are finished, click OK to save your changes. You may now close the RegistryEditor because you are finished with the hack.
Just log off and log back on or restart to see the new changes in effect. If you did not edit the registry correctly, such as specifying the exact correct file as the value for shell, you will not be able to use your computer properly because Explorer will not load. If that is the case, after you log on, eventually you will be shown just your background image. You will need to start up Explorer manually by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete to bring up the Task Manager. Once the TaskManager is displayed, click the New Task button on the Applications tab and type in regedit.This will launch the Registry Editor again so that you can edit the shell entry again. Go backthrough Step 9 to get back to the shell entry. Make sure that you type in the full correct filename with the extension as the value. If you want to revert to the original Windows Explorer with Start as the text on the Start button, just change this value back to explorer.exe. Then just log off your computer by using the shutdown menu bar item in the Task Manager and you will be back to normal when you log back on.
AND THIS REALLY WORKS....TRY IT!!!! AND GOOD LUCK
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