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Friday, January 21, 2011

How to rename start menu text

Do you want to rename start menu text to your name or other?. This post will teach you to change start menu text to your name or other. You can see the start text it is of 5 words only but you can change it to any numbers but it takes more space so it is better to change to 5 or 6 words. Look in the picture below I have change start into ctips4u
Now let’s begin with these steps here is procedure to rename start text
Step 1:- Before begin you should Download resources hacker. Download it Here. Extract it. It is in .zip format
Step 2:- Goto My Computer click on folder options in Tools select view and click on Show on hidden files and folders. Now uncheck on Hide Protected operating system files click on Ok.
Step 3:- Open ResHacker which downloaded just now.
Step 4:- On the Resource Hacker window in the file menu click on File and click on open
Open explore.exe which is located at C:\Windows\explorer.exe
Step 5:- Now Goto this location
String Table\37\
Click on 1033
See in the right window you can see start
change start to your text and click on compile script
Step 6:- Again Goto this location
String Table\38\
Click on 1033 
See in the right window you can see start
change start to your text don’t remove and now click on compile script
Step 7:- Now click on file choose Save As. Save it as explorer.exe in C:\Windows\infdirectory
Note:- Don’t click on Save. click on save asClose Resources Hacker window
Step 8:- Open registry editor.
To open select Run from start menu and type regedit
Now registry editor window will open
Step 9:- In registry window search HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Navigate to following location
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ Winlogon
Now in the right window search for Shell 
Step 10:- Right click on Shell and click Modify you will see window just like this
Step 11:- Now edit Value Data: as inf/explorer.exe click ok
Now reboot your computer and watch it you will see the changes.

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