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re: Question about 'Customize the Start Menu Button'
Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 7:26 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Per Eriksson
(4 messages posted)
Thank you! I now have costomized my start button and i have learned alot about dos
and dos commands! But saidly replaceing the HID.DLL file was not the answer to that
problem... But thank you anyway!
On Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 5:01 am, rob wrote:
>You have to copy the files over to the relevant locations in real Dos mode. You
cannot
>replace files used by windows, inside windows.
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>Copy the NEW Explorer.exe and NEW Hid.dll to the root of C: and rename them to Explorer.new
>and Hid.new
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>Now go to Start > Shutdown and select "Restart in MS-Dos", OK it.
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>At the C:\> prompt type...
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>ren C:\windows\explorer.exe explorer.old press Enter.
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>Now at the C:\> prompt type....
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>ren C:\windows\system\hid.dll hid.old press Enter.
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>Back at C:\>
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>Now type....
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>Copy C:\explorer.new C:\windows\ press Enter.
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>Back at C:\>
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>Now type.....
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>ren C:\windows\explorer.new explorer.exe press Enter.
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>Back at C:\>
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>Now type.....
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>Copy C:\hid.new C:\windows\system\ press Enter.
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>Back at C:\>
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>Now type.....
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>ren C:\windows\system\hid.new hid.dll press Enter.
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>Press CTRL + ALT + DEL to restart the PC
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>That should be it.
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>Assuming you have carried out the Explorer.exe modifications correctly, then the
>PC should boot up fine.
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>If not, you will have to start the PC at a true Dos Command prompt and rename the
>Explorer.exe back to .new and the original Explorer.old back to .exe
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