Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp From: manni DOT heumann AT gmx DOT de (Manni Heumann) Subject: Re: precompiled headers and djgpp References: X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.01 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:25:43 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp33-226.uni-bielefeld.de Message-ID: <38d8d7e9$1_1@news.uni-bielefeld.de> X-Trace: 22 Mar 2000 15:25:45 +0200, dhcp33-226.uni-bielefeld.de Lines: 32 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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 -- Manni