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re: Question about 'Customize the Start Menu Button'
Thursday, January 1, 2004 at 1:21 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Broni
(1423 messages posted)
Free, no pain, little utility StartButton
will do it for you
On Thursday, January 1, 2004 at 12:51 pm, PlasmaCow wrote:
>I know that this works with Windows 95 and 98, and I believe that it also works
on
>Windows XP, but I still need to test it...
>
>You need not be limited to five characters, nor do you need to use programs downloaded
>from the internet. Exit to DOS or open the DOS prompt, get to C:\Windows> (or wherever
>your windows folder is), then type "edit \70 explorer.exe" (you may want to save
>a backup copy of explorer first) This will open the DOS text editor.
>
>Scroll down a long way (I no longer use Windows 95 or 98, so I have forgotten which
>line it is...it's at least halfway down). As you scroll (I recommend using page
down),
>watch for readable words in the mess of jumbled characters. You should pass a few
>large clumps of them. Search these passages for a club (like the card suit) followed
>by S t a r t.
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>If you look at the value of the club, you'll notice it is five. This corresponds
>to the number of characters in "Start". Count up the number of characters in your
>desired start text, then find a character with that value (values appear in the
lower-right
>corner). Replace the club with that character. Then replace the s, t, a, r, and
t
>with the first five desired characters. You'll notice that the spaces between characters
>have a 0 value. These must stay 0; do not use the spacebar for these spaces! Copy
>one 0 value space and paste it between each of your characters. I realise that this
>is a bit hard to understand, but once you get what I'm talking about and find the
>start text you need, it's really quite easy.
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