Start button - Rename taskbar in Windows Xp

[Rajesh4mLA]

Here is the trick to rename your start button in windows XP.
You can rename the taskbar.

Hope this helps.

[JamesMK]

Well thanks for the cool tool.
It really changes the start button & it feels good to have your own name instead of start button.

[Emilia]

IS this really working i am having problems with it it changes the button for only few minutes & then reverts back.
Any better program for this?

[Chandran12]

The start button icon is found in the file user.exe in your windows\system directory. You can easly edit it. You need to change the 16X16 icon image in user.exe to your own. It can be done easly by using any icon editor.

1.Backup user.exe.
2.Load your icon to icon editor.
3.Copy your icon into clipboard.
4.You can't edit user.exe while Windows active so copy user.exe to some temporary folder for edit.
5.Load user.exe to the icon edior.
6.Select 16X16 image size.
7.Paste your icon.
8.Now quit Windows, and replace user.exe.
9.Start Windows

Change The Text In The Start button:

Open c:\windows\explorer.exe with a hex editor. Search for "Start" in hexadecimal format, possibly with 00 separating each character. Once replaced, reboot the system, and the new text will be there. Do not add more than 5 characters!