Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
From:	manni DOT heumann AT gmx DOT de (Manni Heumann)
Subject:	Re: precompiled headers and djgpp
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Date:	Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:25:43 GMT
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djgpp AT delorie DOT com wrote:
>
>On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, leon wrote:
>
>> > How do you get it not to load Explorer.exe when you start Windows?
>> 
>> what do you mean?!
>
>What Damian meant (at least that's how I understood him) is that
>Explorer is *always* loaded on Windows, because it's the default
>Windows shell: it is responsible for launching other applications,
>such as the DOS box, and anything else you run by clicking an icon or
>a file name, or by using the START->RUN dialog.
>
>There is a way to replace Explorer with another program that will act
>as a Windows shell, but I never bothered to do that (and I'm not aware
>of any free software that can do this, anyway).
>
>Note that a "Windows shell" has nothing to do with the shell you use
>to interact with the system from the DOS Box's command prompt.
>

Explorer IS the start button, the task bar, etc. There are actually a couple 
of free replacements: Geoshell, litestep... AFAIK these are open source.

And you can always switch back to the win3.1 program manager, just set the 
shell variable in system.ini to progman.exe


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Manni

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