Tips & Tricks

Want to know how long has your Windows XP system been running is?

Click Start > Run and type “cmd” (without the quotes) to open the command prompt. At the prompt, you type:

systeminfo

There you’ll see your system information. Scroll down the list to the line where it says System Up Time. This line will tell you in days, hours, minutes and seconds how long your computer been running.

Note: This command works in Windows XP Professional. If in Home Edition you type:

net statistics workstation

Hope this helps!

Bored with the “start” text on XP Start button? Here I will show you step by step on how to change the text. Before continue reading, you first need to download a tool called Resource Hacker. We need this tool because we want to edit file explorer.exe located at C:\Windows. Since explorer.exe is a binary file, so we need that tool to view, modify and compile the file.

Step 1 – Editing explorer.exe
I assume you have downloaded the tool that we need. First, make a backup copy of your explorer.exe located at C:\Windows and place it in somewhere in your hard disk. Run Resource Hacker and open explorer.exe. Click on “String Table” and expand by clicking the plus sign. Then, click on folder 37 (38 for classic windows) and highlight 1033. Highlight “start” and change it with any words that you like, eg: Begin. (Note: Make sure you type the words between the quotes). Then compile the script by clicking on Compile Script button. From the File menu, click on Save As and save it with new file name. But make sure to put .exe after the filename, eg: newexplorer.exe. Save it in C:\Windows.

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