7.9.1998
If renaming ourselves was as easy as renaming files in Windows, I'd have a million aliases. You can click once on an icon to select it, click again on the icon's text portion, wait 1 second, and edit away. Or select an icon, press F2, and edit away. But if you're a right-click type of person, just right click on an icon and select "rename" from the menu, then edit away. The IE5 beta allows you to right-click and rename items in the Start Menu, too.