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I lost at least a week when I figured out you could change the WinXP start menu text with a hex editor and went down the rabbit hole from there. Having a start
by na85 5y ago
I lost at least a week when I figured out you could change the WinXP start menu text with a hex editor and went down the rabbit hole from there.
Having a start menu that read "na85" in lieu of "Start" made teenage me feel like the leetest of haxors.
- exporectomy 5y agoHaha. I wondered what "na85" meant so I looked up Urban Dictionary and it turns out you're the authority on "1337".
- mkoryak 5y agoI have a vague memory of being able to change the windows 98 startup screen image ( where it says windows 98 ). I changed a bunch of HS computers to say nindows 88 by "photoshoping" it in ms paint.
- dkdbejwi383 5y agoI changed some to “windows 98: stolen edition” on a few school computers
- Delk 5y agoAh, the security of Windows 98 on common-use school computers. I think we all had some kind of a username and password with which we were supposed to log in. Except that, of course, in Win 9x it's really only a login to the network (for whatever it was used for -- access to file shares or something?), and to access just about whatever in the OS you can just hit "cancel" and be in.
- shiftpgdn 5y agoThat made me think back to running litestep as an alternative shell on my Windows98 computer and occasionally having to pull the drive and mount it in another system to recover it when I blew it up with a bad configuration.