One of the most annoying thing in windows XP is the
start button text, which almost every user want to change as per my experience. I myself changed my
start button text to different funny start button texts
.In order to change the start button text you will need to tweak your windows explorer which is responsible for displaying the text on your start button.
The most traditional way or commonly used way to change the start button text is by using the popular program called Resource Hacker but it is some what more complex and meant for advanced users.
In this post i am going to discuss 2 simple ways to Change the Start Button Text.Let’s see all three ways through which you can change the start button text in Windows XP
The Complex Method ( For Advanced Users)
Change Start Button Text with Resource Hacker
We would suggest please make a system restore so that you can restore back to the previous windows state
1. Firstly download resource hacker from here
2. Run Resource Hacker, by double clicking ResHacker.exe and click File--> Open, Locate windows explorer in C:\WINDOWS ( explorer.exe )

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 Wintipz 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 ----> wintipz.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 "wintipz.exe" as shown in figure below and then exit registry editor:

Step 8: Restart your computer to see the changes.
that's all folks.....just type ur name...in place of wintipz.......
keep checking my blog for more tricks & tips..!