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    Modify Start Button

    With a non-aero Basic Theme, the start button looks like the classic 'Start' button.
    How do you rename the text on the start button? I am using the basic theme and would used to be able to edit explorer.exe and rename the 'Start' letters in the old style start button. I reviewed resource hacker and cannot find where this is now located in windows 7 (explorer.exe contains the orb, but not the windows logo/'Start'). Do you know what file this information was moved to?

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    This is an old haxk on mine >Certainlt would noy work with Windows 7:

    START BUTTON, CHANGE
    1. Make a copy of Explorer.exe called Explorer.new and open Explorer.new with a hex editor.
    To change Bubble help text:
    2a. Search for hex 43006C00690063006B (i.e. "C l i c k" separated by null 00 characters). There's a few.
    2b. Replace bubble help caption with whatever, nulling out as necessary.
    2c. Go to step 4
    To change "Start" button text
    3a. Search for hex 530074006100720074 ("Start" separated by null characters).
    3b. Replace Start button caption with up to 5 characters, nulling out as necessary.
    3c. Go to step 4.
    4. Boot to DOS, replace original Explorer.exe with the new Explorer.new.
    5. Reboot.

    I take no resposability if you try it.

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    This doesn't work under Windows 7, I do not see those offsets in the explorer.exe file. Do you have an alternative suggestion/file?

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    I believe it's in the shell32.dll

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    I thought shell32.dll also, however I can't seem to find it in there.

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    User32.dll

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    Not in User32.dll either

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    You're probably not going to see that set of hex code on any file in Windows 7, it's totality re-written.

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    it must be somewhere... the graphic and/or text.

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