How to Change Start Button Text in Windows Using Resource Hacker?

We're getting lots of mails regularly asking same question - How can I change Start button text in Windows?

Although we have mentioned it in following tutorial:

List of a few Locations in Windows XP to be Hacked Using Resource Hacker

But many times people miss this article. So today we decided to write a small separate tutorial about it:

Before:

After:

1. Open "%windir%\Explorer.exe" file in Resource Hacker.

2. Go to:

"String Table -> 37 -> 1033 -> 578" (If you are using Luna theme)

"String Table -> 38 -> 1033 -> 595" (If you are using Windows Classic theme)

3. You'll get a string "start". Just change it with whatever text you want to show. Make sure you put quotes.

4. Compile the script and save the file. That's it. You have done.

NOTE 1: To know more about Resource Hacker, visit following link:

All About Resource Hacker in a brief Tutorial

NOTE 2: If you are facing problems while saving a file after editing in resource hacker, then make sure you have disabled WFP (Windows File Protection) service using WFP Patcher.

Also if you are getting error "Can't create file...", that means you have edited and saved the same file in past and there is a backup file which needs to be deleted before saving this file again. Go to the folder containing this file and you'll see a similar file having "_original" in its name. Delete it and try to save the file in resource hacker.

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