March 15th, 2007
Rename Your XP Start Button with StartBtn Re-Namer
By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
Time for some fun and a possible office prank. Download StartBtn Renamer and simply type in a new word or phrase and hit enter.
Hilarity ensues.
Start Button Renamer
via No Heat
tarzan says:
Gee, it’d be nice if that link worked.
March 15th, 2007 at 10:57 am
sp says:
Look for this sentence to download: “Hold down when clicking to download.” That sometimes changed to ^-)
Enjoy!
March 15th, 2007 at 11:10 am
sp says:
hey I typed “Hold down Shift when clicking to download.” … changed to “Ctrl” but somehow the brackets does not show in the post ???
March 15th, 2007 at 11:12 am
ed3 says:
“Sorry, this GeoCities site is currently unavailable.”
Realtechnews dotted…
March 15th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Wiseassoffice says:
Hey folks my readers noticed this download was a gonner. I went ahead and put up a mirror hosted at my site
http://www.noheat.com
Here’s the link,
http://noheat.com/download/ProgFull.zip
March 15th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Mumblix Grumph says:
Try this link
http://www.noheat.com/2007/03/14/start-button-renamer-customize-your-start-menu-easily/
March 15th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
billwrtr says:
No persistence. Twenty minutes after you change your Start button, something in the bowels of Windows sets it back to “Start.” Too bad.
March 16th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
LZW says:
I downloaded it from the home page and use it:
http://www.geocities.com/startbtn/
There are 3 downloads… Program + source code, program only, and source code only! The first 2 do say to hold the shift key while clicking but I’ll be damned if I know why. That’s like the shortcut key for “open in new window” I believe!
You don’t have to hold any keys, the download works fine.
The source code is in Delphi5… I loaded it in Delphi7 and it compiled fine. The web page says not to modify the program but if you are into Delphi, you may not to anyway for your own personal use.
He is a good programmer but does one lousy job at guessing what the width of the start button should be… He like counts the characters then adds 64 pixels and that might a good average if you use 5 characters, else it’s some pretty lousy font metrics!
As was already stated, the change is temporary and the start button will revert back to normal in time. (even without reboot) To keep the change may require a registry setting or something but when you read his source code, you’ll see he is merely using Windows API function to find and manipulate the window handle of the start buton. (hwnd) The actual rename is using “wm_SetText” (windows messaging) to change the caption of the button.
March 17th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Rich says:
Opening Task Manager will cause the Start button to revert back to “start” immediately.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:07 am
Nash says:
thanx a lot love it….
April 27th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
omkaran says:
it is easy to use for rename the start butten & it is the best.
February 12th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Phillip Corcoran says:
Pretty useless if it changes itself back to default. What’s the point of creating this tool, let alone using it?
June 4th, 2008 at 6:25 am
mrmisfit says:
It would be nice when you rename the start button it would stay that way, but it doesn’t, i give it 3 stars
July 22nd, 2008 at 6:22 pm