How to Change the "Shutting down.." Text Message at Shutdown in Windows 7 and Vista

Change "Shutting down..." Text Message at Shutdown.

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Now lets coming to point -"How to do this??"
Follow the steps below to do this-

1. In Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Windows\System32\en-US\wininit.exe.mui. (see screenshot below)

Note

The en-US folder is in English Windows 7 copies. If you have a non-English Windows 7 copy, then this folder will have a different name reflecting your language instead.The table below are a few of the most common ones.

Folder Name	Language
da-DK	Danish
en-GB	English-Great Britian
en-US	English-U.S.
fi-FI	Finnish
fr-FR	French
de-DE	German
el-GR	Greek
it-IT	Italian
no-NO	Norwegian
es-ES	Spanish
sv-SE	Swedish

2. Take Ownership of the wininit.exe.mui file with your user account, and set it's permissions to Allow your user account Full Control. Close Windows Explorer when finished.

3. Copy this wininit.exe.mui file to your desktop.

4. If you have not already, download and install Resourse Hacker.

5. Right click on the Resource Hacker shortcut in Start Menu - All Programs, then click on Run as administrator. (see screenshot below)

6. If prompted by UAC then click on Yes (Windows 7) or Continue (Vista).

7. In Resource Hacker, click on File and Open. (see screenshot below)

8. In Resource Hacker, select All Files (*.*) in the Files of type drop down box, navigate to and select the copied wininit.exe.mui file on the desktop,then click on the Open button. (see screenshot below)

9. In the left pane of Resource Hacker, expand String Table, and 63, to 1003. (see screenshot below)

10. In the right pane of 1002, replace the Shutting down... text in quotes at 1003 with the text you want instead (ex: Turning off computer...) within quotes, then click on the Compile Script button. (see screenshot above and below)

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1. Click on File and Save, then close Resource Hacker. (see screenshot below)

12. Copy the modified wininit.exe.mui file on your Desktop, and Paste it into the C:\Windows\System32\en-US folder from step 1. (see screenshot below step 1)
NOTE: The en-US folder is in English Windows 7 copies. If you have a non-English Windows 7 copy, then this folder will have a different name reflecting your language instead.

13. Click on Copy and Replace. (see screenshot below)

14. Restart the computer and log in to see the changes made.

Tip

If the "Shutting down..." message did not change at shutdown (in second shutdown) after your changes from above, then:

1) Open a elevated command prompt i.e open cmd and run as administrator

2) In the command prompt, type mcbuilder and press Enter.

3) When the command window closes, restart the computer.

15. You can delete the wininit.exe_original.mui that ResHacker created if you like since you can easily do OPTION TWO below to restore the default settings.


Thats it!! Hope you have done successfully !!