I tried following a few people's instructions to the letter but I still can't get my windows XP start buttion to read anything but "start".

Can anyone help?

Try a Google search for "XP start change" and you will get all the reading you can stand. It looks like there are problems that need to be planned for if you do this hack.

Mike

I think I remember someone telling me that it could be done with Style XP. I never tried it, so I don't know for sure.

its too long to explain.

http://www.theeldergeek.com/change_text_on_xp_start_button.htm

but please remember, if you have NEVER modified your registry, don't do it :-)