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Customized Start Menu Button
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Tools That You Need:
1. Resource Hacker

2. Custom Start Menu icons (images). It mush be of the size 54×162 with a .bmp extension. which looks something as follows

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They must be in the following order:

1st Image - When the button is not in use
2nd Image - When the mouse pointer is over the button
3rd Image - When the button is clicked

I have few customized buttons which are ready to use. You can download them from the following link.

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Once you have all those resources ready, you can start the customization process as follows…

1. Take the ownership of the file “explorer.exe“ which is located in the Windows Folder (Most likely in C:\Windows).

2. Open the Resource Hacker Tool.

3. Go to File menu and click on Open. Now load the file “explorer.exe” into the Resource Hacker.

4. Expand Bitmap branch in the left pane.

5. Now expand 6801 option, right-click on 1033 and select Replace Resource option.

6. A new window appears. Click on Open file with new bitmap button.

7. Navigate to the customized (.bmp) image, open it and click on Replace button.

8. Repeat steps 4 to 7 above for the options 6805 and 6809 as well.
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9. Now click on Save option (File->Save). Resource Hacker will automatically create a backup file called explorer_original.exe so that you can restore it in the future if needed.

10. Log Off and Log On to see the changes in effect.

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I FOUND THIS ON gohacking.com!
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I got a better one.....all you do is browse for the start orb you want and it auto replaces it without restart or changing files

I even learned how to make my own

here is the link to the changer You must login or register to view this content.....no install
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you can run jotti's malware scan on the file You must login or register to view this content.

This is mine that I made
Not hovering
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Mouse hovering over it
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And when its clicked
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This is pretty sick, gonna use it when I get home. Thanks, +rep