question about explorer.ee

[HondaF1]

Hello everyone. I have a question about teh exlporer.exe process. I am creating a custom system for myself which will use a visual basic application upon startup of the system. When a usual Windows 95+ system starts up, the epxlorer.exe loads up? I read somewhere that the explrer.exe process is the basic visual shell of windows or something?!!? I tried closing explorer.exe in the task manager of win 2000 and it removed everything except for the background wallpaper. Here is what I am thinking of. I would like the system to satrtup, load windows, not load any of these start buttons and all taht, and just load a visual basic program that I put in the startup registry or something. How can I remove explrer.exe from starting up?

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Disable the service in the services manager under admin tools.

Or edit the system ini file.

find the line that reads shell=Explorer.exe and remove explorer.exe

 

[hopejr]

the system.ini way only works in win9x btw. in win2k and winxp, there's another way of doing it (using the registry). My pc is off atm, so I can't check what it is.

 

[HondaF1]

Thankyou, I would greatly appreciate any help on this

 

[Brian23]

I recomend installing Litestep. It's a free windows shell that has a scripting language to let you write your own interface. And of course it lets you disable explorer as well. I personally use Litestep on my main PC with a custom interface script

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: HondaF1
Thankyou, I would greatly appreciate any help on this

Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon set the Shell key to the path of the program you want to launch as the users shell.

Bill