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..:: Change Your Start Button ::..
I drew this inspiration from a story I read on digg.com. I have made a few changes as the article didn't quite work as described. You should only do this if you know what you are doing; if you read something you don't understand, it's probably better you don't play with this. With that being said; you will need a program to work on an exe file; I used eXeScope for this. Simple to use and easy setup. First go to c:\windows and grab your explorer.exe copy and paste it to your desktop. Next, simply click on the Save button. |
Close eXeScope and go back to your desktop. Rename your file example_explorer.exe; use whatever you like. Now move this back to your c:\windows directory.
Now for the harder part; click on Start > Run and type regedit. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CURRENTVERSION\WINLOGON; change the "shell" to your new explorer.exe Congrats; you're done! Reboot and if all goes well your start button will be changed.
I tested this on WinXP SP2; all right click functions were still functional; contrary to other reports. No ill effects on my machine, no harm no foul, just a bit of a change... quite nice. Enjoy! Inspiration from theeldergeek. If you run Adaware it will catch the hack as an exploit so be careful when running Adaware. |
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