How to hack / change your start button in Windows XP Professional
Hacking the Start button This works on XP Pro Build 2600 (The final verison), and it should work on all other versions as well. ALWAYS BACKUP EVERYTHING YOU EDIT OR DELETE. I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU MESS YOUR COMPUTER UP BY DOING THIS HACK. DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. First off, you need to download a program called Resource Hacker . It's kinda like a hex editor, it allows you to change bitmaps, text, ect. in program files. Windows XP has a feature called Windows File Protection. This feature stops you from changing important system files, that could leave your operating system, non-fuctional. The file that we need to edit, Explorer.exe, is protected by Windows File Protection. What we need to do, is make Explorer.exe not part of Windows File Protection. Once we do that, we will be able to edit Explorer.exe when we want, and as much as we want. There are two way's of doing this. One way, is taking explorer out of the the file protection. The other way is to totally disab