Renaming the Start Button

To rename the start button, you will need a hex editor.
My preference is UltraEdit

   1. Copy the \windows\explore.exe file to a new name (e.g. explorer_1.exe)
   2. With the hex editor, open that file and go to offset 412b6
   3. You will see the word start with blanks between each letter
   4. Edit it be any 5 characters or less
   5. Save the file
   6. Boot to DOS
   7. Copy the existing c:\windows\explorer.exe to explorer.org
   8. Copy explorer_1.exe to explorer.exe
   9. You will also need to replace the explorer.exe in the c:\windows\system32\dllcache file as well with the new one.

Note: If the partition is NTFS and you can't access the files from DOS:

   1. Start Regedit
   2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon.
   3. Change the value of Shell from Explorer.exe to explorer_1.exe