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Change Start Menu Button In Windows 7

Posted February 6, 2010 – 9:51 am in: Windows 7 Guides
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Most of the third-party Windows 7 visual styles that are available today come with a new Start Orb bitmap, but in order to get the new Start Orb you need to either edit or replace explorer file. If you are one of those who like to replace the default Start Orb with a custom one without tinkering system file, here is a small tool for you.

Windows 7 Start Orb Changer

Windows 7 Start Orb Changer is a fantastic tool to quickly change the Start Orb bitmap (image) in a jiffy. The utility is extremely simple and useful especially for novice Windows users.

How to use it:

1. Download and extract the files to Desktop to get Windows 7 Start Orb Changer folder.

2. Run Windows 7 Start Orb Changer (.exe) file.

Windows 7 Start Orb Changer

3. Click Change Orb button and browse to the custom Start Orb bitmap file. Note that you can find sample Orbs in Windows 7 Start Orb Changer folder.

Change Windows 7 Start Orb

4. If you are prompted with any confirmation dialog-box, click Continue.

5. You are done!

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9 Comments

  1. George
    Posted February 6, 2010 at 5:02 pm | Permalink

    I can’t get it to work. When choosing the orb I get a big error. Click continue and it goes back to the choose orb menu… And the orb will not change…

  2. Mike Dallos
    Posted February 6, 2010 at 7:43 pm | Permalink

    Thank you………..I’m lovin’ it!

  3. Chris
    Posted February 6, 2010 at 10:03 pm | Permalink

    This blue screened me on Win 7 Pro x64. Completely lost my explorer.exe. I had to come to the desktop then ctrl-shift-esc, file->new task, cmd, then sfc /scannow and it repaired my desktop.

  4. admin
    Posted February 6, 2010 at 10:52 pm | Permalink

    @ Chris
    Thanks for your valuable inputs Chris. It appears that the software is not compatible with x64!! Will contact the developer more info. Thanks again.

  5. danny
    Posted February 10, 2010 at 10:25 pm | Permalink

    only works if win7 is on c: drive, so as mine is on f: drive and XP is on c: drive i find this to be a complete and utter waste of time, he couldn’t even add the option to change drive letters, what a complete noob coder, hes a fucking selfish bastard, so either fix it for almost every pro who partitions for multiple os’ or consider yourself THE worst programmer of all time.

  6. Joshua
    Posted April 13, 2010 at 10:57 am | Permalink

    It works with my copy of Windows 7 64 bit. It does give an error message, but if you run it as administrator it’s fine. Some times it randomly decides to delete explorer though. And even through command prompt I can’t get it back. System restore gets it back fine though.

  7. Jefli
    Posted December 4, 2010 at 3:20 pm | Permalink

    Download Link Broken. -File Not Found. Mirror Please :( HELP!!

  8. Grant
    Posted February 22, 2011 at 6:44 am | Permalink

    the link is gone?

  9. Someone
    Posted March 10, 2011 at 11:21 pm | Permalink

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