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Robert Lewis

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Jun 23, 2002, 8:35:46 AM6/23/02
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Does anyone know of a tweak to change the default color and test of the
start button?

TIA
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Robert M. Lewis
rmle...@comcast.net
rml...@meriwethermicro.us
Windows Help and Web Authoring


fr33k

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Jun 23, 2002, 9:00:49 AM6/23/02
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themes.

http://www.themexp.org/

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PowerUser

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Jun 23, 2002, 10:06:51 AM6/23/02
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You need a hex editor to change the text.

Robert Lewis

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Jun 23, 2002, 8:45:06 PM6/23/02
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Thanks, fr33k. That worked well, although using the software changed all the
pointers to the normal select pointer. It looks better than the XP default
theme.

Thanks again.


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Adam Koch

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Jun 23, 2002, 11:27:15 PM6/23/02
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>You need a hex editor to change the text.

In XP the start button is a bitmap, as is the rest of the XP gui elements,
which is why the style's work the way they do. You can download reshacker
and change the start button that way. There are webpages that have
tutorials. A quick, simple search on google yeilded this:

http://www.overclockersclub.com/xpstartbutton.shtml

Reshacker is a great program in and of itself. The interface is a lot
friendlier than most hex-editing programs, as you don't have to sort through
pages and pages of hex to find what you're looking for. The program sets up
all of the internal associations and program structures into an
explorer-like gui that makes navigation easy. One caveat, when messing
around with Window's internal elements, back up before you do anything, and
if you aren't sure of what you're doing, leave it alone. Also, creating a
system restore point before you do anything is always a good thing to do.

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Adam Koch
ADSL CTAC Engineer
Alcatel USA


Robert Lewis

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Jun 24, 2002, 4:45:10 AM6/24/02
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Adam,
 
Thanks,
 
I downloaded the reshacker.zip this morning, and will install when home again. I tried the xptheme.org site as well. It did everything but the text part, and I now have a blue start button to go with the "cough drop" theme.
 
Thanks to all who reposnded!
 
Bob Lewis
Well I've already used a hex editor to change the start button text, just open explorer.exe in the editor, make a simple change, then close.

!PowerUser!

fr33k

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Jun 24, 2002, 5:02:35 AM6/24/02
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I'll write a simple tutorial that I can understand, so if I can
understand then anybody can understand it.
IT will only take a few steps and a couple of clicks to change the text
on your start button from start to fr33k :D

brb

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fr33k

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Jun 24, 2002, 5:32:19 AM6/24/02
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**quick change of the start button text**

1. First get reshacker at: http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/

2. In RUN type: dllcache and hit enter.

3. Delete the explorer.exe from the dllcache.

4. Go to C:\WINDOWS and copy the explorer.exe to C:\ so you can edit it.

5. Drop the explorer.exe on reshacker.

6. Go to String Table #37, and edit start between the quotes""" from "start" to "fart"

7. Click the Compile Script button, and close reshacker, and save.

8. Rename the edited explorer.exe to explorer.exe.new

9. Open NotePad, and copy whats between the lines, and save as start.bat

_______________________________________________________________________________________

@echo off

ren explorer.exe explorer
ren explorer.exe.new explorer.exe
_______________________________________________________________________________________

10. Put both the start.bat and explorer.exe.new in C:\WINDOWS

11. Double click the start.bat file.

12. After you click the bat file you will be prompted to put in the xp cd
press the cancel button. followed by another prompt press the yes button that you want to keep the new file.

13. REBOOT

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