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03-06-2005, 04:20 PM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Gallarate (VA) - Italy
Vehicle: 2001 Range Rover DSE
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any chance to "hide" windows
hi, i'm afraid it's not a so clever question, but: is there any chance to hide windows and start directly with the chosen front end? i mean, is there a way in order to do this:
1. avoid all post text and messages to be shown (just black screen could be good),
2. use a custom boot logo (i've already done this)
3. enter directly the front end, without see any windows trace?
thanx.
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03-06-2005, 04:32 PM
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Admin. Don't bug or I'll byte.
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Corning, NY
Vehicle: 2001 VW Beetle
Posts: 4,582
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Search on terms like "windows shell" or "using FP as shell". I'm not sure you can do everything you're asking, but you can do some of it.
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03-06-2005, 04:38 PM
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Map Monkey Creator
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Warrington, UK
Vehicle: Toyota MR2 GT T-Bar & VW Golf GT-TDi
Posts: 1,012
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Yes you can do this, you cant even tell my carpc is windows as it boots straight into the frontend with no messages (apart from the boot logo of course)
You need to tell Xp to autologin
Set your shell to be your frontend rather than explorer
There is a local policy setting to disable windows status messages ("Opening network connections" and all that jazz). Once activated nothing will be shown at all apart from the default background until the frontend has loaded
Use TweakXP to change the default "login" background to black. This will mean after the boot screen all you will see is a black screen until your frontend appears.
Easy as that!
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03-06-2005, 04:39 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: May 2004
Vehicle: 2006 Impreza WRX Limited
Posts: 1,153
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look at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
and modify the Shell registry value to your front end. Make sure you've got a way to bring up explorer or a command line once you make this change.
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03-06-2005, 04:49 PM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Gallarate (VA) - Italy
Vehicle: 2001 Range Rover DSE
Posts: 131
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thanx alot. quick, sharp and clear!
only a little doubt: how about hiding motherboard post messages (press del to enter setup, irq listing and so on ... without having to delay monitor power on, i mean...).
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03-06-2005, 06:23 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: May 2004
Vehicle: 2006 Impreza WRX Limited
Posts: 1,153
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your bios may have a "silent" boot option where it displays an image rather than the post messages. mine has it, but intel recommends not using it if you want the fastest boot possible. some even let you change the image.
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03-06-2005, 06:33 PM
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Well, He asked for it.
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Los Angeles, CA (West LA)
Vehicle: 1988 Jeep Cherokee 4X4, 2005 VW GTI 1.8T - SOLD
Posts: 1,653
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Quote: Originally Posted by SFiorito
look at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
and modify the Shell registry value to your front end. Make sure you've got a way to bring up explorer or a command line once you make this change.
any idea how to get back into explorer.exe?
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03-06-2005, 06:39 PM
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I'm sorry, and you are....?
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Ruston, LA
Vehicle: 1998 Ranger/1991 Sunbird
Posts: 9,857
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Quote: Originally Posted by WebDog
any idea how to get back into explorer.exe?
just tell your frontend to open explorer.exe as an app
or use the task manager to run it
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I am for hire!
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03-06-2005, 08:43 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: NH
Vehicle: 2005 Toyota Tacoma
Posts: 1,173
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careful tho if your using minlogon.exe CTRL, ALT, DEL will be disabled.. so make sure your front end has a shell capability.
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03-07-2005, 01:02 AM
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Well, He asked for it.
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Los Angeles, CA (West LA)
Vehicle: 1988 Jeep Cherokee 4X4, 2005 VW GTI 1.8T - SOLD
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Quote: Originally Posted by frodobaggins
just tell your frontend to open explorer.exe as an app
or use the task manager to run it
hmm il have to try that on my laptop im albout ready to load linux on  so it wont matter if i jack it up.
if i do that and it dont work would safe mode work? or would that go to the Front end to?
Would their be any proformance gains by not loading explorer?
Hmm the big question, What front end to use lol.
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