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by sub-d

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I want to replace the standard Shell from W2K with my own program, under windows 95/98 this could be done in the SYSTEM.INI but I can't find this option in W2K. can you?

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by jdfcomputer

Windows 2000 was built using the WindowsNT command interface and cannot be changed without corrupting the software layer. The structure of how the OS works is dramatically different from Windows9x and I strongly suggest not attempting any changes to the core system, unless you are prepared to rebulid your system if it crashes.

BTW - if you migrated you drive to NTFS, good luck re-installing Win9x

by sub-d

This is not the answer I'm looking for. I use the W2K system as an embedded system and I just don't want the explorer to show up. After looking around I found a registry key that dos the trick: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

there is an entry called SHELL, when I replace EXPLORER.EXE with the name of my own program, that program will be started INSTEAD of the standard shell.

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