Windows Shell

[C M]

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

[jmtjet]

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.

[C M]

many thanks for that, i read somewhere that one could have a similar effect by using the Windows Scripting Host, any thoughts?

[jmtjet]

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.

[paisan]

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.