Well the simplest and the least time consuming way of changing the Start button text is described below:
Step 1:
Create a system restore point just incase if something goes wrong you can roll back to the original settings. Make a back up copy of explorer.exe in a safe place, maybe in a different folder.
Step 2:
You would need to download a small freeware utility called Resource Hacker. “Resource HackerTM is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems.” excerpt from Resource Hacker’s Website
Step 3:
Open Resource Hacker utility. Click on File —> Open location c:\windows Type “explorer.exe” in the text box.
Step 4:
Expand String Table —> 37 from the tree view and click on 1033 as shown in the figure below.
Step 5:
From the right window next to where start is written in front of 578 edit the text to what you want on your start button. For example I edited it to “shiladitya” as shown in the figure below:
Step 6:
Click on the “Compile Script” button on top of the right window. Now click on File —> Save as —-> shiladitya.exe as shown in Figure Below:
Step 7: Open registry editor by clicking on Start —> Run and typing “regedit” at the text box. Navigate to HKEY_Local_Machine -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows NT -> CurrentVersion -> Winlogon
From the right pane double click on shell and replace “explorer.exe” with “shiladitya.exe” as shown in figure below and then exit registry editor:
Step 8: Restart your computer to see the changes.
