Fun With Windows 95   by Die Datenbaecker (DDB)

This text was primary written in German. I tried to translate it into English, but my English isn't very good, too, so there can be some grammar errors... signing off, dipswitch ------------------cut---------------------------------------> F U N W i T H W i N D O W S 9 5 Run your favourite hex editor and open the file 'explorer.exe' in the windows directory. Don't forget to make a backup of the explorer.exe ! Here are some offsets: 0002D480 Here you find 'S.t.a.r.t.'. That's what you see on the start button. To change this, e.g. to 'ABCDE' (only up to 5 letters), set the cursor on 'S' and type: <A>, <right cursor key>, <B>, <right cursor key>, <C>... The '.' chars must not be changed ! You must not set your own '.' 's ! 0002CEC0 Here you see 'Klicken Sie zum Starten auf diese Schaltfl„che' (sorry i have only german version...) This text comes up, when you move the mouse cursor over the start button. Like i wrote above, you can change this text. If you use blanks, it will look like this: 'F.u.c.k. .y.o.u.!.' If you look around in the file, you will find another texts to change. But attention: one mistake, and the file is unuseble ! I am not respondible for any damage that can be caused by this release ! When you have finished, save the result e.g. as 'explorer.---'. If you have done the work in windows, quit it and type in DOS: DEL EXPLORER.EXE RENAME EXPLORER.--- EXPLORER.EXE Now you have exchanged the explorer.exe with your masterpiece. Have fun ! p.s.: The 'shell32.dll' and other Windows-files contains many other stuff ! ( In any windows file, the text is at the end of the file. They are easy to find because of the '.' between the chars. ) Bye ! Diver