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easier method (can also be more than 5 chars)
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 at 10:39 am
Posted by Marian (1 messages posted)

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)

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re: easier method (can also be more than 5 chars)
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 at 1:42 pm
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)


>

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