How to modify WinVer.exe in Longhorn 3683?

I want to change the picture and text in build version.

You don't modify winver.

I've been trying to do the same thing today, but I have no luck. What are you working on?

Images are located in msgina.dll. The buildtag is apparently produced by the registry.

Modifying winver is useless. Go instead for Shell32. Change String Table 4.

use resource hacker to edit winver's image . registry for build tag .

Lol, winver gets it's images from msgina.dll. Shell32 too.

It's not in msgina.dll

It is, look harder in reshack. OS?

It's only 3 Windows Shutdown Utility Images, and the shutdown buttons. No windows logos or anything.

should be in there. look in shell32.dll instead then.

Try msgina.dll for the classic (Windows 2000-style) logon screen. Shell32.dll for winver.

Or just write your own winver.exe like I did...

Winver.exe just displays information from elsewhere, anyway. You can take the Winver.exe from Windows 3.1 and run it in Windows 7 (or 8!) 32-bit and it'll show the version information for the OS it's in.

I modified the Winver from Windows for Workgroups (to "Windoze for Warehouses"), but Winver picks up a lot of stuff from other places. Try running winver in a different OS, and see what changes. This will tell you if you are looking at the right thing!

as soulman nicely said, text comes from registry
the downfall is, you'll have to write bat/cmd script that runs on every boot
to change it because Windows always reverts changes back to original

And the registry text comes from ntoskrnl.exe, ntkrnl** and shell32.

good luck having stable os editing kernel...

much better using bat script

I try to mdifier winver but I found that story I could not so I try to change the winver redemarage and I got a blue screen of death