Adam Wheeler wrote: How can i change the colour of the start button in Windows 
XP?

Download something or edit something.

• Change the startbutton color

Copy luna.msstyles from \WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Luna to your desktop, rename to 
lunaBACKUP.msstyles
Copy luna.msstyles from \WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Luna to your desktop again

- open luna.msstyles (the one on the desktop) with Resource 
Hacker 
- navigate to Bitmap/BLUE_STARTBUTTON_BMP/1033
- (to change the startbutton for the silver and olive taskbars, edit METALLIC_STARTBUTTON_BMP 
or HOMESTEAD_STARTBUTTON_BMP) 
- right-click '1033' and save the bitmap to your desktop
- edit the color with Adobe Photoshop or Corel PhotoPaint (don't use XPs built-in 
editor 'cos it will change the resolution)
- note: don't change the pink edge or you'll destroy the start menu border
- right-click '1033', click Replace Resource, and replace the green button with your 
own version
- select 'save' or 'save as' from the file menu, other methods result in unusable 
files
- replace the original msstyles file with your edited version or create a new theme 
(copy the shell folder from luna to your new theme folder)
- changes will be visible after reboot, log off/log on, or changing theme/visual 
style from the display properties control panel

This trick works with any msstyles file. You may need to patch 
uxtheme.dll to make it work.

Go to this site and click 'Start Menu' 
to change other things, like the text and logo.

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