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Hi there,
In the older versions of windows you used to be able to set a program to run as the Shell or in the Shell.
Can you still do that in Windows 2000/XP/2003 e.t.c.?
Any documents/guides/advice would be greatfully appreciated.
Many Thanks, Chris
In the "old" days MS had a DOS shell program that was actually the first GUI and worked very well. I prefered it to the first Windows GUI-Windows 3.0-3.1. But with the newer versions of the Windows operating systems, that do not rely on DOS at all, I don't believe a shell is there.
Windows 2000 & XP have a DOS like program that allows you to enter DOS commands, but it's not true DOS. Hope this helps. :)
many thanks for that, i read somewhere that one could have a similar effect by using the Windows Scripting Host, any thoughts?
A quick Google search got me this:
http://www.winguides.com/scripting/reference.php?id=109
I'm not personally familiar WSH, so can't advise you on it. Check out the articles on the link. Hope this helps.
Not sure if this is what you are looking for but:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
The shell statement is their and is explorer.exe.
You can change this setting to change the shell just like you used to add a shell= statement to the system.ini file in Win9x.