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portreathbeach · 02-11-2008, 04:41 PM

The main reason that I alter the 'Shell' in the registry is that if you shell to your front-end, and try and run explorer.exe, you only get the explorer window. You have to change the registry entry to explorer.exe while in the front-end to allow the full GUI to load. I don't really understand why this is, but it seems to work.

You would have thought that after XP looks at the 'shell' entry and runs the front-end, it wouldn't look at it again, but it does, and explorer.exe will only run the full GUI if the 'shell' entry is explorer.exe.

02-11-2008, 04:41 PM	#6
portreathbeach Constant Bitrate Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Cornwall, England Posts: 145	The main reason that I alter the 'Shell' in the registry is that if you shell to your front-end, and try and run explorer.exe, you only get the explorer window. You have to change the registry entry to explorer.exe while in the front-end to allow the full GUI to load. I don't really understand why this is, but it seems to work. You would have thought that after XP looks at the 'shell' entry and runs the front-end, it wouldn't look at it again, but it does, and explorer.exe will only run the full GUI if the 'shell' entry is explorer.exe. __________________ ViVE - Volkswagen In Van Entertainment: VoomPC 2, VIA C7 2GHz 7" Lilliput 120Gb Sata drive 1GB RAM [\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|] 100% - Planning [\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|] 100% - Software coding [\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|] 100% - Built (Always tweaking!)