Post Your Desktop! - Page 7

ashmufc · 11-09-2004, 14:21

Well it worked for me, ddint you abckup your explorer.exe?

**-=[101st]=-** · 12-09-2004, 10:54

yes.. i did.. it is impossible not to have a backup of your original explorer.exe unless you physically delete it.. are u running sp1, sp 2 or none of them?

ashmufc · 12-09-2004, 11:46

Well what I did was if you want it to go abck to normal. Was go c:/windows/ then rename explorer.exe to bin.exe and then rename explorer_bak.exe to explorer.exe, and it went back to normal. And I use SP2, you could have jsut did that in safe mode or what?
I'm not sure what went wrong with you as I did not write that tutorial.

And read this:

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Change Text on XP Start Button
For Windows XP Home and Professional Versions
Very Important - See notes at end of article before using this procedure !
Contains SP2 and Ad-aware Cautions

And at the bottom:

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Here's an interesting note I received from Daniel B. regarding an experience he had with this procedure. I haven't verified this personally nor have I experienced the situation when running AdAware, but it's worth adding it here as a caution. Thank you, Daniel, for sending it along.

Good evening, I would like to mention that your site helps me a lot in understanding Windows XP and suggest you add a few lines to your article titled: Change Text on XP Start Button For Windows XP Home and Professional Versions

I have executed the procedure to modify the text on the XP start button and it works fine. I did that a week ago.

Today I downloaded Lavasoft’s Ad-aware freeware and ran it.

Being curious by nature I looked at the scanned results before suppressing anything.

I was surprised to find that the shell modification used to change text on xp start button was picked up by ad-aware.

I did not delete it!

I can only image what it would have done to windows if it had been removed.

So I suggest a warning be added to your article to the effect that shell modifications and ad-aware could lead to …. Windows not starting.

Thank you

Daniel B

Hello,

I have found your site to be very informative and helpful. However, there is one thing that I believe needs mentioning. I had read before that it was possible to change the text that is displayed on your Start button. I followed your instructions and soon enough, the ‘Start’ button on my XP Pro SP1 said ‘stop’ instead (how clever, right???). All was well until I decided to download the network installer for MS’ new SP2. I ran the installer with all virus scanning software off and updated my machine to SP2. I did the initial Automatic Updates setup and prepared to boot into my desktop. It appeared to be working except my desktop never fully loaded. I got this message saying that Windows Explorer had encountered a problem and needed to close. Blah, blah, blah, you know the drill. So I restart. Same thing. I thought I was in big trouble until I tried ctrl-alt-del. Success! I was able to start a new task (regedit), point my Shell back to explorer.exe, and restart. Low and behold, after I entered my password, my desktop came up and everything was normal. SP2 has worked like a charm ever since.

I thought that maybe it was just something wrong with the update to SP2 and later tried to modify my Shell file again. I restarted and got the same error. I think it would be a very good idea to post an update to the text changing site telling users that if they run the update to SP2 with the modified Shell, their computer will become unusable. It’s really too bad – I enjoyed the heck out of telling Microsoft where to stick their ‘Start’ button…

Thanks for the great site and keep up the good work!!!

Adam

Thanks, Adam. The bottom line here is that you should revert back to the original explorer.exe file that was backed up in Step 1 of the article. Failure to do so can result in serious consequences.

**-=[101st]=-** · 12-09-2004, 11:50

i read all that and i fixed it fucking inconvienient though... it was easy to fix compared to other things i have to fix on daily basis..

GE · 12-09-2004, 14:13

How do you have more than 3 Icons in the bottom corner, like this ???

Paul B · 12-09-2004, 17:20

Make sure your taskbar isn't locked and then simply drag which icons you want to be on the taskbar onto it. Use the dotted bit to allow more icons to be visible.

ashmufc · 12-09-2004, 18:11

Paul, you forgot to write you take no responsibility if anything goes wrong.

GE · 12-09-2004, 19:22

ok, thanks Paul B

**tom pain** · 12-09-2004, 19:27

Here's a pic I did of me, and I turned myself into a smurf on Photoshop.

Hey Zyg, look who I'm talking to.

**-=[101st]=-** · 13-09-2004, 03:51

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Originally Posted by ashmufc

Paul, you forgot to write you take no responsibility if anything goes wrong.

there is a bit of a difference between editting explorer.exe and dragging a task bar...

stevieboy · 03-12-2004, 00:08

Here's my new one.
Yay retro for de old skool!!!

Fab · 03-12-2004, 00:10

Man final fantasy 7 , thats a classic *thumbs up*.

Gold saucer, now they had some good games there. Dunk was my best

**jMz** · 03-12-2004, 00:31

Here's my bitch...
The menu bars on the top all pop out when you hover the mouse over them, but I've dropped them down so you can see all the heavenly glory.

Fab · 03-12-2004, 00:41

wow JMZ your computer is smart.
Now check mine out, real old school baby. iam ashamed for having such an old computer :o

And dont ask me why i got so much shit on there, iam just to lazy to clean up ok.

stevieboy · 03-12-2004, 00:42

There's a real industrial feel to that, jMz.
Me like.

What setup have you got there?