Windows 7 Start Orb Changer: Ultimate Tool To Change Your Start Orb

7th January 2011 - Customization, door2windows Freewares, Downloads, Windows, Windows 7

Windows 7 Start Orb Changer

Windows 7 Start Orb Changer is a freeware from door2windows that allows you to change your start orb/button with just one click in Windows 7.

Features:

How to use:

  1. Run the tool as administrator.
    Windows 7 Start Orb Changer
  2. Click Change.
    Windows 7 Start Orb Changer
  3. Select the start orb and click Open. You can get some orbs from these links: 1, 2
    Windows 7 Start Orb Changer
  4. The Windows Explorer will now restart automatically and you will be able to see the new start orb/button which you chose. Click OK.Windows 7 Start Orb Changer

To restore the original start orb click Restore.

You can expand the advanced settings by clicking the arrow at the bottom right corner of the window:
Windows 7 Start Orb Changer

Checking the Add Shortcut In Context Menu option will add an Start Orb option in the desktop context menu so that you can access the tool with one click:
Desktop Context Menu

Checking the Add Option In Context Menu option will add an Set As Start Orb option in the context menu of all PNG and BMP files so that you can change your start orb with one click:
Context Menu of BMP and PNG File Formats

To create your own start orb visit this tutorial: How To Create A Windows 7 Start Orb

Credit goes to Jeff Bush for the memory patch and resource updater.

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  • Guest

    Ok, here’s a tip for those who are getting the “generic GDI+” error.  Move the .bmp or .png containing the orbs you wish to change to OUT of any system directories (i.e. Windows, System32, SysWOW64, etc.)  Somewhere like the Desktop should be fine. Then browse to the .bmp or .png with Orb Changer and let ‘er rip.  This worked for me.

    Thank you Kishan and Jeff for an awesome utility.  Ignore all the whiners….

  • alexreffand

    I LOVE this utility, but can I make a suggestion for an improvement?

    I would love to see a function that would allow you to create a list of start images, and have the program cycle through them at regular intervals, like how windows can cycle through backdrops, but with the start button. I can’t imagine it’d be too difficult to do, either. Just a suggestion. Love it!

  • Jhskg

    Thanks…

    Nice work..

  • Aditya Mehta

    hey this thing is giving error in my pc when i turn on my pc a dialong box arrive and says bitmap ’6801 error 

  • Boldriter

    I downloaded it and ran it. Doesn’t make any error messages or anything but when I change the 3 states are blank in the program window and there is no start button showing on my taskbar. I hit restore and it goes back to normal win 7 start button, I’m using several start orbs from your suggested link. What am I doing wrong? I am doing this under my named account but I am administrator also. 

  • Will Scather

    Please add the posibility to change the Start Button for the Classic Theme too! I know, it must be somewhere else than the other orbs, but once you find it, it should be simpler to change, as it isn’t even animated!

  • Bricrook

    When I use it I get the message ” FAILED TO UPDATE BITMAP ”
    I have to click on OK about 5 times for the message to go away.

    I still get my orb though.

  • Bricrook

    EDIT-   I get the Failed to update message every time I reboot.

  • Ruffy

    can’t change my orb.  Always get the error:
    A generic error occurred in GDI+

  • Jibbax

    having “failed to update bitmap ’6801′: 24″ problem too (Win7 pro x64) :/

  • Duarte Lourenço

    Hi!
    I also got the GDI+ error once!
    Then everytime I try to use it I get the “update bitmap” issue!
    Dialog says “Failed to update BITMAP ’6801′:24″ and then goes up to ’6811′.
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
    Thanks for any help!

  • Displeased

    got the failed to update bitmap error continuously and the orb never changed so I switch to edit resource mode…which damaged my explorer.exe, had to restore backup with command prompt in order for my explorer to work again =/ no idea how this happened and if i’m the only one it’s happened to

  • Jibbax

     the same append to me when tried the other mode

  • Ipintw

    im havin problem, 

    after restart. the startorb change to its original state. ;(
    how can i solve this?

  • http://twitter.com/rjvdavid Ryan Joshua David

    conflicts with oceanis wallpaper

  • Hari Anil 123

    its coming or no t?

  • tenro

    i try changing the start orb and it says change was sucessful but my start orb is still the same nothing has changed

  • ku kung

    if you used orb start changer v2.6 please restore default
    then try orb rtart changer v4
    I successful

  • Neya

    it worked earlier but now it makes every orb into the door icon in the tutorial

  • Wilhelm

    I ran this as an administrator, and it wiped my desktop and all its icons and replaced it with that of the administrator I ran it as. Fix your software.

  • Kbphoto615

    I have used this start orb changer, and ever since using it Explorer.Exe crashes randomly and restarts. Is there any way to fix this? When it restarts, my orb is back to default. It’s annoying as even once it crashes and restores the orb to default, it still continues to crash. Randomly. Any help would be greatly apprecaited! 

  • Kbphoto615

    Ahh it seems my comment will probably be useless. The guy who had been helping people on here hasn’t reponded in some time now. I doubt he will. :/ 

  • Khud2288

    look up 7tsp it will help and ensure that it never reverts.

  • assia akarass

    thankxxx ^^

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