Windows XP Start Hack
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PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE COMMENTARY BEFORE CONTINUING! ALSO, PLEASE VOTE!
There is an interactive version of this (by me) here (remove all spaces in the URL!): http://www.newgrounds.com /portal/view/353610
This is a hack to change the word "Start" on your Windows XP computer to something else.
(EDIT!: I fixed the audio sync error!)
You can get Resource Hacker here: http://www.angusj.com/res ourcehacker/
You can get Process Explorer here: http://www.microsoft.com/ technet/sysinternals/util ities/ProcessExplorer.msp x
(NG puts spaces into URLs, so if the URLs don't work, look for and remove spaces.)
Disclaimer!!: This hack requires you to change a file that comes with your computer and is a CRITICAL component for the proper operation of your computer! Please attempt at your own risk, I do not offer any warranty of any kind. If you are secure in your abilities to hack a CRITICAL component of your computer, please try this, its neat! It adds some extra personality to your computer!
Note: Please submit this to the Windows Collection please! Thankies! :-D
Reviews
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars December 11, 2006
many folk had fun
+++ Clear instructions
--- Near the start, some audio glitching from the left speaker really hurt my ear.
--- No links to programs needed.
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Not as good a tut as the game, obviously.
I forgot to mention in the other review - you really should provide links and a full list of what we need to dl. The credits on the other one was a good resource, but having clearer 'what you need to dl' list would really help if I ever chose to do this.
I just noticed that you have them in your comments, but why not as a clear, clickable list in the flasH?
Funky tutorial and I imagine many folk had fun with this.
Question - can we put in kanji? I'd mebbe like to have it as: 'Gogo go [ji]!!!' (So the pun of 'go, go, go!!! o'clock' or '5pm').
Well, I figured int he other flash that if someone wanted to do this, they would just use the Flash, since it instructs you to click your new button and view the credits. plus, NG doesn't like URL tags in the submission comments sometimes... sorry.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars September 13, 2008
argh
i would but i have window's visa. and if i did have windows xp it might couse a viruse. o well. still good job!
It wouldn't cause a virus, that's not possible. However, you are correct in that it will not work on Windows Vista.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars February 23, 2008
Thats great!
Thats really cool, but this belongs on youtube.
I've been told, lol.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars January 3, 2008
very interesting.....
amazing! i did not know u could do that!
is there any other things you can change with that sort of thing?
Yes, there are, if you want to check it out create a restore point or use a virtual machine and edit the other lines in that file.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars November 10, 2007
Nice
That was cool. I am personally fascinated with computers and there internal components. I would attempt this, but if I screwed up, I am SO screwed. My parents use this comp too so It would affect them too. A few questions, does this change apply to all users? And, how did you figure out how to do that?
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This change applies to all users because you are using the GUI shell for all users. I will be posting a how to that should work better for everyone than editing the only explorer.exe file, but that'll come in time. Also, I found this by just playing around, I'm very good with computers so if I fuck up my laptop here, I know how to fix it. Someone stated (above) that I used someone's book for this, but I don't read books, nor have I ever heard of the one that person is referring to, I figured this out by myself and decided to share. Thanks for the review!