How to Change Start Menu button look in Windows 7?


You can spice up your copy of Windows 7 by changing the Start Menu buttonlook. This tutorial will help you in changing the Start Menu button.

Default Start menu button:



Figure 1


Customized Start menu button:



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You need:

• Custom Start button icons (.bmp). You can download them from the internet. They must be in the following order:

1) When the button is not in use
2) When mouse pointer is over the button
3) When button is clicked

It must be like this:



Figure 3


• Download Resource Hacker utility from here to help you in editing the .exe file


To accomplish this follow these steps:

1) Open C:\ drive and Take Ownership of the Windows folder

Note: To know how to take ownership of the Windows Folder automaticallyclick the link Include Take Ownership option in the right click menu



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2) Open Resource Hacker and open the file explorer.exe through it which is located in the C:\Widnows folder



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3) Expand Bitmap branch in the left pane



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4) Now expand 6801 option and right click on 1033 option and select Replace Resource option

5) Click Open file with new bitmap button



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6) Navigate to the customized (.bmp) image and open it

7) Click Replace button



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8) Repeat steps 4 to 7 above for the options 6805 and 6809 also



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9) Now save the file as explorer.exe on the Desktop

10) Now go to the folder C:\Windows and rename the file explorer.exe toexplorer.exe.bak. This will act as a backup so that you can restore the default file in future



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11) Now copy the file explorer.exe on the Desktop to C:\Windows folder

12) Log off and then Log on for the changes to take effect