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Hello friends,i want a know who to rename the start in windows through the Application developed by VB 6.0.If u know means pls help......
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Hi,
Refer FindWindow(), SetWindowText() APIs which helps you to change the Name of start button.
Refer FindWindow(), SetWindowText() APIs which helps you to change the Name of start button.
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It is important to mention here, that it is easy enough to use findwindow and setwindowtext to change the caption of the start button, but it is more important to mention, that it doesn't show up until you put your mouse over it (force it to animate [change to lighter green] in XP), and worse yet.... even after you change it, as soon as it's parent (Shell_TrayWnd) gets any kind of focus again, the first thing it will do is change the caption BACK to start. So, unless you plan to devour system resources by polling the start button's caption and changing it when it needs it.... you'll have to edit explorer.exe and change it in there. You can make it effective if you lock the taskbar, so that the Shell_TrayWnd isn't easily accessible with the mouse, but this will still cause some issues for you.
Last edited by Comatose; Feb 15th, 2009 at 3:18 pm.
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Yes, I agree Comatose
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Originally Posted by vasunttfshimoga 
Hello friends,i want a know who to rename the start in windows through the Application developed by VB 6.0.If u know means pls help......
Hmm, I never came across a situation where someone wanted to rename the "Start" menu...
Last edited by Tamir09; Feb 22nd, 2009 at 2:25 am.
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