It's even easier to customized the Start Menu button with the program Tclock and it doesn't involve any hex editing......not something I would recommend for the uninitiated as a single error can cause you a lot of trouble.




On Wednesday, October 31, 2001 at 7:57 pm, Michael Ward wrote:
>Concerning: Customize
>the Start Menu Button:

>
>This works in Windows 2000 also. The advantage of being able to do this in Windows
>2000 is that you can update explorer.exe while Windows is running. To do this:
>
>1. Update your copy of explorer.exe
>2. Use task manager to end the explorer.exe process
>3. Choose File -> New Task (run)
>4. Choose Browse
>5. Navigate to your modified explorer.exe, right click, select copy
>6. Paste it over the explorer.exe in your windows directory
>7. Now run explorer (File -> New Task (run))
>
>Explorer will now run, restore your taskbar but this time with the altered Start
>button.
>
>This probably works in NT also, although I have not verified this.

Written in response to: Question about 'Customize the Start Menu Button' (Michael Ward: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 at 7:57 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Customize the Start Menu Button' (mal: Thursday, November 1, 2001 at 7:21 am)

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