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re: Question about 'Customize the Start Menu Button'
Friday, February 8, 2002 at 5:50 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Eep
(8 messages posted)
How do you get Win2K to stop overwriting the modified explorer.exe with the original
version?
On Wednesday, October 31, 2001 at 7:57 pm, Michael Ward wrote:
>Concerning: Customize
>the Start Menu Button:
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>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:
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>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))
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>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.
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