HI FRIENDS, THER ARE COUPLE OF PROBLEMS WITH ME IS THERE IS ANY 1 WHO CAN SOLVE IT ? i want to do these thing in winxp 1.I WANT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE START MENU 2.I WANT TO CHANGE THE TEXT NAME OF CONTROL PANEL KINDLY ANSWER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE THNKS

I'm not sure if i fully understand what you are asking, OK , do you want to change the word Start to something else or your user name on the start menu? and you want to change the text name of control panel to something else? ? IE control panel to something like Panel of controls, or you want to change the font used for control panel?

It is difficult to change the name of the Start menu, but of course, possible: If you are a novice user, please do not attempt the following: --- 1. Download the tool Resource Hacker. Unzip to "C:\Reshack". 2. This is where it gets nasty: Start the Registry Editor by clicking Start > Run > and typing REGEDIT. 3. Browse to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" 4. Change the string value "Shell" to "C:\reshack\reshacker.exe". WARNING! BEFORE PROCEEDING, MAKE SURE YOU PRINT THIS INFORMATION!!! 5. Restart the computer, and when the Resource Hacker program starts, click File > Open > and type "%WINDIR%\explorer.exe". If this does not work, try "C:\Windows\explorer.exe". 6. When explorer.exe opens in reshacker, double click "String Table", and double click on the little yellow folder with the number "37". 7. Click "1033", or whatever appears. 8. In the pane to the right, block select the word "start", but DO NOT SELECT THE QUOTATION MARKS! Replace the word start with whatever you like, eg "begin". So, if you used the word begin, the panel should read: STRINGTABLE LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US { 578, "begin" ... (The other information is not neccessary) } 9. When you have typed in the word of your choice, click "Compile Script". --- Ok, so you just changed the word "start" to "begin". Your're halfway there. If you noticed, the word "start" does not start with an uppercase "s". This is because with visual styles, Start is spelt all lowercase. Without visual styles (e.g. standard Windows 98 style) the word start is spelt with a uppercase "s": "Start". --- 10. Double click folder number 38, and click the little cog, number "1033". Repeat steps 8 and 9, except this time apply these actions to the cog we just selected. Don't forget to click Compile Script!!!!!! 11. Click File > Save (Resource Hacker will automatically save a backup of explorer.exe, named "explorer_original.exe".) 12. Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE. In the Task Manager, click File > "New Task (Run...)" 13. Type REGEDIT.EXE, and repeat step 3. (The key may already be displayed.) 14. Change "Shell" to "explorer.exe". 15. Restart the computer. 16. The start menu should now display the name you selected!!!!!!! Hope this worked :) I'm gonna retest it myself right now :) ┌┤IMPAVIDUS├┐ "No snowflake in an avalanche ever felt responsible. - Voltaire"

CORRECTION!!! Instead of click SAVE in reshacker, click SAVE AS, and type "newexplore.exe". In regedit, change "C:\reshack\reshacker.exe" to "newexplore.exe". Why? Because Windows XP security will notice that the explorer.exe file has changed, and replace it with a good copy!!! Otherwise, this won't work. ALSO: To change the name of Control Panel, in the String Table in resource hacker, go to string table number 515 and Change "&Control Panel" to whatever you desire. The & tells the following letter to be a accelerator character, eg changing &Control Panel to Stu&pid Panel, would cause control panel in the start menu to be displayed as "Stupid Panel" Dont forget to compile!! :) ┌┤IMPAVIDUS├┐ "No snowflake in an avalanche ever felt responsible. - Voltaire"

Or you could open reshack modify explorer.exe and click save As, then save it as a new file name, then open Regedit, then browze to HKEY_Current_User\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon , now create a string named "SHELL" and set the value data to the name of the changed version of explorer.exe that you saved. This way is a much safer way because it only changes the shell on the username that you are currently logged onto instead of the whole system and if it doesant work you can login on as a different user and have the default explorer.exe

i think u people dont get my point i jus wanted 2 change the text ' Control panel ' to something else and also want to change the text ' Start ' of the start menu plz be simple and straight fwd thnkx