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awergh

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What is a good free program for editing user.exe

and how do you change the name and colour

of where the text on the left side of the start

menu where the text of windows 98 is.

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Wrong file again!

USER.EXE is an NE file and is part of the 16-bit subsystem. Reshacker only works with PEs.

What you're probably thinking of is USER32.DLL which has nothing other than Version resources.

All these files are locked while Windows is running, so save to another directory, boot into DOS, copy the files over, then start Windows.

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thats not quite what i mean because i still want to edit user.exe to change the start menu icon because the program i used to edit user.exe wasnt free.

also when i use resource hacker to edit explorer.exe when i go into bitmap, 157, 1033 and try and choose replace resource the computer hangs

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Download this: http://www.dr-hoiby.com/TrayIconIn256Color...2.3110.1.us.zip

And this: http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/tools/ResHack.zip

Then modify your heart out, then boot to dos and type: COPY C:\FOLDER\EXPLORER.EXE C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE

NOW HIT ENTER

FOLDER is the "folder" you put your modified explorer in like: C:\ABC

keep the name short and in root C: or you will be doing one of these ~

TADA !!!

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thats not quite what i mean because i still want to edit user.exe to change the start menu icon because the program i used to edit user.exe wasnt free.

also when i use resource hacker to edit explorer.exe when i go into bitmap, 157, 1033 and try and choose replace resource the computer hangs

eXescope allows for editing 16 bits modules (user.exe etc...).

I've never had any problem for replacing bitmaps with Reshacker.

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I haven't got a clue. You've got no problems with other programs, doing other things ?

Or maybe it's just that the new bitmaps are not of the same color depth than the originals.

But even doing that I can't remember I ever had such a problem.

I did try to replace 16 color ones with 256 color ones in some files but it did not crash when doing it.

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found XN Resource Editor works for 32 bit files like explorer.exe and doesnt freeze but it doesnt work on 16 bit files like user.exe

http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d10resourceeditor.htm

does it matter if i change a bitmap so that it has a different amount of colours and is a different height?

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