FireTime Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Can anyone think of a way to stop windows from starting explorer on load. I know that I could just kill it but thats a waste of recourses on an already slower computer. BTW: this is for win2000 if it matters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingToChatWith Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 taskkill in a batch file and schedule it to run on logon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireTime Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 Yeah, I know I can do that, But does some one know if there a way to stop it from launching altogether? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingToChatWith Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Modify the shell value at hklm\software\microsoft\windowsnt\currentversion\winlogin so its empty? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runkittyrun Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 make a command bat file with "echo hello world" or some other meaningless command rename explorer.exe so you can start it if you need it replace explorer.exe with your file Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingToChatWith Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Or have an empty .bat file. I don't think you need to put anything in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beakmyn Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Modify the shell value at hklm\software\microsoft\windowsnt\currentversion\winlogin so its empty? HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon keyname: Shell Type: String Is the full key. This will replace it for all users. For a per user setting. Use HKEY_CURRENT_USER create the key if neccesary. You can set it to anything you want. On my picture frames I set it to John's background switchers. On the kids media player I set it to winamp. One thing to note. If you use ctrl+alt+del to run a explorer you've got a 50% chance that it will start in shell mode instead of file manager mode. If you don't like working with the registry you can find quite a few "shell switchers", "shell managers" that will do it for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loneferret Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Can anyone think of a way to stop windows from starting explorer on load. I know that I could just kill it but thats a waste of recourses on an already slower computer. BTW: this is for win2000 if it matters. Go to: hkey_local_machine\software\Microsoft\Windows nt\current version\winlogon in your registry and replace explorer.exe with command.com You'll have a nice Dos windows open on logon and no annoying GUI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireTime Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 replace explorer.exe with command.com I'm running this in a kiosk mode, so i just replaced it with an invalid path "expoorerr.exe" Also the Key in windows 2000 wasn't in the windows NT folder, it was in the windows/current version folder. ~Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireTime Posted April 14, 2009 Author Share Posted April 14, 2009 Hey just a tip. I'm doing this for an arcade cabinet. Games run a little faster, and MAME starts up MUCH faster without having to load explorer. The one problem that I ran into was that if you don't run explorer NONE of the start up programs run. This is good for keeping the start time down, but now there is no way to run MAME. I found that if you place mame (or a linker exe) in the same directory as explorer you can run that instead by entering its name in the registry (replacing Explorer.exe) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Isn't there a linux-mame distro? Could just use that instead? Probably be faster and lightweight than windows, so long as your GPU is supported. I think Wess did this with his arcade cabinet, but not positive it was linux. http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-advcd.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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