USERS customize their Windows desktop by changing the colors, fonts and background and by adding themes and pictures. How would you like to change your Start button and have your name displayed instead?

To do that, you need a text editor with hexadecimal editing capability. We got one such application from the Internet--PitPad 2.2--for free. Here's how you do it:

1) Create a backup copy of your Explorer.exe located in your Windows directory.

2) Launch your text editor application and put it in Hex mode

3) Open the original copy of Explorer.exe.

4) Search for the string "53 00 74 00 61 00 72 00 74".

5) You will encounter multiple occurences of the string but make sure the section you are in should also have the words "There was an internal error..."

6) Replace the Start letters with any letter you want (five characters only).

7) Save the file and give it a new name (for example, ExpBak.exe ), exit to Windows and boot to DOS.

8) Change your directory to Windows (type "cd\windows").

9) Delete the original Explorer.exe (type: del explorer.exe). Make sure you have created a backup copy of this file.

10) Rename the edited Explorer.exe (type: ren ExpBak.exe Explorer.exe).

11) Go back to Windows and look at your personalize "Start" button