Change The Text On The Start Menu Button

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A quick hack to change the start menu text to something besides start.

note:
Do not attempt this hack if you run ad-aware or you do not have SP2 installed. Also note that although you can make the text longer than 5 characters, I have not personally tested it, and therefore do not recommend it.

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Change The Text On The Start Menu Button

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  • brilliant

    worked perfectly man ;) thanks for giving me the idea of a unique proposal chance to my girlfriend ;)

    By RODHA 1188718587 Reply Spam [+23] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • please becareful with this method...

      by changing the registry and pointing at a different shell than "explorer.exe" somtimes a virus prog. or reg cleaner will pick up the new shell as a problem and clean it ie "explorerhack.exe" once its cleaned you wont be able to logon to your desktop, i see a guy posted that this broke his PC.. very plausable, this was probably the case... but if this happens its easy to fix, when you logon start task manager> newtask>regedit and point the shell back to the original exe

      By vermelho1 1191851348 Reply Spam [+3] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • dangerous

      This broke my computer and cost me £120
      you sick minded freak:(

      By george9630 1191334195 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • It could have been easily fixed.

      If this broke your computer (i.e. you couldn't access your desktop) don't worry, you're in good company. It happened to me, too, and I didn't pay a dime to fix my system. If you're interested, click the "thumbs up" button and I make a vid explaining how to fix it.

      By keyofreason 1196058439 Reply Spam [+7] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • clean up

      im a technician and i could tell that his computer needed a clean up, when he opened his windows folders, there were a bunch of large size garbage files, watch my vid to find out how to clear your pc of up to 2gbs of space

      By randomuploaderguy 1191115663 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • clean up 2gbs of space?

      what if your on a shitty old computer that only has a 2gb hard drive? :D

      By jindivik 1191581770 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • who is these days

      .

      By fremontchris 1202317567 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • be carefull

    all you people who don't even know where the register editor is
    PLEASE don't try it
    it's means you underastimate your knowlegde of windows
    and like already a couple of people posted here
    they mested it up!!!

    By Buffyken69 1192214920 Reply Spam [+5] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Know what you're doing

    If you haven't heard any of the terms used in this video, it's best that you DO NOT try this. It works fine when done correctly

    By Smicks 1196051857 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • nice tip

    but resource hacker doesn't seem to read x64 explorer.exe.
    probably limited to 32bit .exe files

    By Hidden Agenda 1188957341 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • RE: change start menu text

    You MUST keep it at exactly 5 characters or it won't load the desktop upon log in/boot. I tried it.

    By Monnyface 1194314237 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • welldone dude !

    it worx ! good job..
    keep it up : )

    By 3x1x12 1191591914 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • raggle fraggle

    I can't find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE on my computer, can you tell me were it is

    By BenWalsh644 1190588059 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • fix if goes wrong..

    if explorerhack.exe got deleted bcos of antivirus watever. Get to windows task manager at logon, then go to file ->Newtask and type regedit, to change register back to original..

    By mikegas79 1196442072 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • dont try

    my antivirus cant start and anyspyware after do this. sucker things although cool. i hope got other safe way to do it that not messy system. zzzzzzz

    By crazyfool2986 1195917912 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Argh

    Dude, this totally screwed up my computer! It took forever for me to get it fixed. Argh.

    By keyofreason 1195685145 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • lol

    well it didnt work for me but i am able to switch back and forth got a nice kiosk setting though out of it.

    By rust6 1194800345 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • 12

    dont do it!!!!!!!!!

    By 2008omar 1194611950 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • helppp

    did everything in the clip...but after i restarted the comp, i logged in and it that showed up was my background...how do i fix it?
    thnx

    By notayt112 1194152219 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • thanks!!

    Thanks man work like a dream I got 7 characters on the start button it just makes it longer as if it were ment to be change and i even got capitalized letters

    By SMG MP7A1 1192909396 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Minor help.

    I know that this works, but when I restarted my computer, the only thing that showed up was my desktop background. I fixed that problem, but I still can't get this hack to work. Any ideas?

    By generalbeaner 1192418275 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • colorz!

    PS.

    Is there any way to change the COLOR of the start button?

    By bentpaperclip 1192154121 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Length

    There are no length restrictions except that of the toolbar itself, and no need to change a number in any piece of registry. Tested that myself. Mine is 17 characters long, no problem.

    By bentpaperclip 1192150426 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • profile

    if you have different profiles on your pc, will it change on every single profile??

    By SkilledALEX 1190813509 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It worked thanks.

    I had stupidly put a space between explorer and hack and wondered what went wrong. Got it working tho, thanks, great video.

    By goonikamen 1190530507 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • ok

    it works... thx

    By slipknot000 1190224894 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • NOT WORKING

    I did the same but didn't work!

    By B_E_S_T 1188912882 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • 5 chars exactly

    I think its got to be exactly five characters right? so if you have like three just add two spaces after

    By jedg3 1188844199 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • This guy.

    Is smart.
    However, this is some of the DUMBEST SHIT IVE EVER SEEN.

    Id advise anybody who does not know what they are doing to stay away from this, or you're going to completely f*ck up your computer.

    By chickensgocluck 1193531318 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • :(

    why didnt it work with me correctly?? i got some problems. after i done what u did in the video and restarted my computer the Start changed i was happy with that but if i open any folder or program and clicked on the X button(exit) internet Explorer opens up with a new blank page. its good that i made a back up to the explorer.exe at first. so i done everything is it used to be and internet explorer stoped showing when i click on the X button. i might try it again and might work. anyways thx.

    By Boyd91 1192408889 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • nice...but

    At the end, you do not have to restart your computer. Simply open your task manager (achieved by pressing Alt Control Delete), click the Processes tab, and find explorer.exe. Select explorer.exe then press 'End Process'. After that, your windows bar at the bottom WILL disappear, so don't freak. Click the Applications tab, push 'New Task...' then type in the new name you have used for your explorer.exe, such as in what was used in this video, explorerhack.exe

    By crazyassjosh 1191958594 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • confused

    where do i get the registry editor

    By t2233 1190932476 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Hmm..

    In finland we have text "Käynnistä" instead of "Start" so you may able to use 9 letters... I think.

    By Spemelitykki 1190208283 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Cool

    looks good, you dont have to always redirect it via registry, it makes it harder to actually repair the PC, overwriting the explorer.exe does the trick, then move the backup into place if you do not like it.

    more than 5 letters on the start button will prolly just stretch it, or the letters do not show

    By laos101 1189593101 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • I 've read about that

    in the past. If i can recall well, it was mentioned that the new text had to be 5 letters long, just as "start" is. I might be wrong about this, or it could be for WindowsNT or Windows2000. It was mentioned that any other lengthed word than 5 letters would cause problems.
    Any hint about that? Just trying to help, hope I am not misleading people.

    By El_Greco 1188673596 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • no you are right

      i've known this trick for along time...
      and you are right if you put in a word with more than 5 letters you have to do another registry modification,
      cant remember where but you have to tell windows how many letters the start button will have (mine is 8 letters).
      i tried afirst time without changing value for number of letter and mess up.
      but when i modified the value for 8 , it worked well.
      i'm still using it as of now
      i took the trick from kelly's corner !
      go there hope it help !

      By DiaboIik 1188800032 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • To help others out further more....

      Go to the website and go to tweaks.

      Crtl + F "111". It's on the right hand side.

      By EndlessMyk08 1188951573 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • ok, thx

      i don't really care to do it myself, just for caution for anyone who would try it. your comment is very helpful to that direction

      By El_Greco 1188835484 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
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