How to change the "Start" button on XP

Are You Tired of the boring old “Start” button at the bottom left corner of your Windows XP’s monitor? Want something new to replace it? Well here’s how to change it.


With a few modifications in the Windows Registry, you can replace the “Start” text with anything you like. Great for achieving a new, custom look for your Windows XP. So let’s get started.


For this trick you will need Resource Hacker, Download [547 kB]


Step 1: Modify 'explorer.exe'


If the warning didn’t scare you enough, then the title of this step probably did. Yes, we are going to change Explorer, the backbone of your Windows XP, but don’t worry. Everything should be safe as long as you follow the steps closely.


As explorer is a binary file, we need a special tool to modify it. One of the best ones for this purpose is Resource Hacker. There are of course others that will get the trick done, but we will be using Resource Hacker this tutorial so I recommend installing it to avoid making mistakes. Install it and let’s continue.


As always before changing anything. you want to back up. So open My Computer and navigate to and look for explorer. Copy paste it to a safe location on your hard drive.


Now that you’ve backed it up, fire up Resource Hacker and find the same explorer.exe.


When you’ve found and opened explorer in Resource Hacker, navigate to String Table -> 37 -> 1033. The “Start” value is on line 4, after the 578. Change the text “Start” to anything you want, making sure you keep the quotes. In this example. I changed the text to "INDIA"






Press the Compile Script button to make Resource Hacker put together the code. Now click File and Save the script as explorer.exe. into C: \WINDOWS\inf or another subfolder in C: \WINDOWS.


Note: Make sure you choose Save As, NOT just Save!!


And that’s all for the first step! Now let’s move onto the second one -modifying the registry.






Step 2: changing the 'registry'.


By now, you have a modified explorer sitting in the /inf/ subfolder, so we need to tell Windows to use that one, instead of the original one still resting untouched. Now we need to make just one simple registry modification. To open up the registry, press Start (something else soon ) -> run and type regedit.


In the registry editor window that opens, navigate toHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ Winlogon and look for the registry entry “shell”. Click it.


Change the explorer.exe to inf/explorer.exe or whereever you saved the modified explorer.


And believe it or not, you’re done! All you have to do now is reboot or log out and bacö in to see the changes. Enjoy your new custom Windows XP Start button!

Use internet via chines phones

It is easy to find that which china mobile supports Internet via mobile or not

just follow these easy steps

first find extras option in menu and open it than look for

blue tooth and in the 'blue tooth' menu go to 'About' button and see if there anything like DUN profile present than you can use this phone to use Internet in PC

Easy way to connect your phone for a dial up connection

the blue tooth method is best than other methods because you dont have purchase particular cables for different handsets and you can get a blue tooth dongle at approx Rs. 150-200 maximum. try to find a blue tooth which uses windows default blue tooth driver so you donty have hassel for install drivers on each time when you insert your dongle in another pc after purchasing a blue tooth hook it in your usb port of computer and wait for install untill you see pop up in notification area that “your device is installed properly and ready to use". after completing this work switch on your mobile phone’s blue tooth and open control pannel of your computer and double click on phone and modem options in recieved dialogue box select modem tab in this feild find add button and click on at in the next box if asks for country code give your country code click ok and in the next box click next …. windows is now find your modem as your phones or blue tooth name EG: MKBTDEVICE click on it and click next widows is now installed your modem and you are again in first place having a installed modem . double click on modem and select modem tab and put this Extra initialization command in box AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","airtelgprs.com". for aircel GPRS it will be AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”AIRCELGPRS” and for TATA docomo GPRS command will be AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”TATA.DOCOMO.INTERNET” and for vodafone india command will be AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”www” go ahead and get what you want.
Enjoy!!........