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re: Customizing Win2K Professional Start Button
Friday, June 28, 2002 at 12:16 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kheng Teong Goh
(1 messages posted)
On Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 12:41 am, Cheezwhizzer wrote:
>I run Win2K Professional Build 2195 and Michael Ward ([Windows 2000] Question about
>'Customize the Start Menu Button' (Michael Ward: Wednesday, October 31, 2001) )
's
>trick does not work on my system.
>
>My system automatically updates important system files from the system32\dllcache
>directory so that any modification made to explorer.exe is nullified by the system
>once the mod'ed .exe is started. In order to get the trick to work on my system,
>I had to rename the explorer.exe file in my system32\dllcache directory to some
other
>name so that the system could not update the mod'ed .exe. After then I was free
to
>mod the explorer .exe in my winnt folder.
>
>Once finished, Windows comes up with a message about how a critical system file
has
>been replaced by an unrecognized version. Simply cancel the dialog box, and approve
>win2k's use of the mod'ed .exe in the next dialog box(in other words, click yes).
>
>Then as Mr. Ward mentions in his post "[Windows 2000] Question about 'Customize
the
>Start Menu Button' (Michael Ward: Wednesday, October 31, 2001) ", press Ctrl-Alt-Delete,
>select task manager or simply run taskmgr.exe, go to the process tab, and end the
>explorer.exe process. Then go to File, New Task, and run explorer.exe.
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