Change Windows start button text and Icon

Here i will show you a trick to change the Windows XP Start button and Icon,

Change the Start text

step is to download Resource Hacker. It is a simple and easy to use application to edit 32 bit widows executable files . It can edit dll files ,exe files ,ocx and view their resources .

Now you have to search for explorer.exe in your h:Windows directory. Take a copy of the file in the same directory and rename it to explorer.bak.

Open explorer.exe in the resource hacker . From the String Table , select 37 >1033.

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Now i changed the start button to techknowl.com . Click on compile script to make the changes.

Rename Recycle Bin in Windows

On the desktop, you can rename the My Computer, My Network Places, My Documents, and
Internet Explorer icons. Assuming you see these icons on your desktop, right−click them, and then click Rename. Other icons, like the Recycle Bin, aren’t so easy. No Rename command is available for them.

Now to Rename Recycle in Windows,
Go to start menu and select RUN . Enter regedit and open Windows Registry editor . In HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT , search for Recycle Bins ‘s CLSID(Class ID) , 645FF040−5081−101B−9F08−00AA002F954E .

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To rename the Recycle Bin icon to techknowl.com, set the value of LocalizedString in the key
HKCRCLSID{645FF040−5081−101B−9F08−00AA002F954E} to techknowl.com by double clicking default. Afterward, click the
desktop, and press F5 to refresh its contents. The value LocalizedString usually contains something
like @%SystemRoot%system32SHELL32.dll,−8964, which means that Windows XP uses the
string with the ID 8964 from the file Shell32.dll. Just replace all that with the new name techknowl.com.

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