re: easier method (can also be more than 5 chars) Tuesday, September 5, 2006 at 1:42 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jeff (957 messages posted) That's a pretty neat trick how you responded before a question was posted.. ;-) Jeff On Tuesday, September 5, 2006 at 10:39 am, Marian wrote: > I've found an easier method to do this: > > First, you need a Resource >Hacker. > > Copy explorer.exe to somewhere else and open the copy with the resource hacker. >Go to "String Table", 38 and click on the number. The third entry is the on for the >Start menu, which you can modify, the text can also have more than 5 letters. Afterwards, >boot Windows in safe mode, and copy the modified explorer.exe to c:\windows and (important!) >to c:\windows\system32\dllcache. > > You can test your changes: open task manager, terminate explorer.exe (right click), >go to file -> new task, and enter the path to the modified explorer.exe) You can >return to your normal explorer by choosing start (or whatelse ;-) ) -> run -> "tskill >explorer". > > (I think it will work on other systems too, but I haven't tried) > > >alt="Linux" style="border-width:0" /> >alt="Ubuntu" style="border-width:0; margin-bottom:3px" /> >src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0c/Firefox-logo.png/35px-Firefox-logo.png" >alt="Firefox" style="border-width:0; margin-bottom:2px" /> Written in response to: easier method (can also be more than 5 chars) (Marian: Tuesday, September 5, 2006 at 10:39 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] easier method (can also be more than 5 chars) (Marian: Tue, Sep 5, 2006, 10:39 am) re: easier method (can also be more than 5 chars) (Jeff: Tue, Sep 5, 2006, 1:42 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum