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expertno.1
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vandit said:this one is for the ones who wish to experiment and are brave enough .......
currently our shell is explorer.exe..... what will happen if it is replaced by firefox? maybe faster,reliable ha ha aha aha ah ah ( slowly gets converted to ah ah ah ! if not done properly )
what do you wanna ask ?
how can it be replaced ?
if you know then post here
expertno.1
Technomancer
tuxfan said:This is just a fantasy/fiction. But could surely be possible in future if someone comes up with some replacable DLL filesThis would have bee much easier As if M$ source was known
so now whats up what is the need of this topic in q+a section ?
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vandit
In the zone
yes I do know.... u can replace the shell of the win os with any other program.....
this is how to do it ....
start>run type msconfig
in the system.ini tab open the boot tree and find a key "shell=explorer.exe"
replace explorer.exe with any application u want.... remember this can be dangerous...I once tried this with notepad but then I reverted back as I was lucky enough that notepad allows us to modify .ini files...
this is how to do it ....
start>run type msconfig
in the system.ini tab open the boot tree and find a key "shell=explorer.exe"
replace explorer.exe with any application u want.... remember this can be dangerous...I once tried this with notepad but then I reverted back as I was lucky enough that notepad allows us to modify .ini files...
expertno.1
Technomancer
yeah but it tells that the file cannot be replaced it is being used by another program
it_waaznt_me
Coming back to life ..
Hmm.. FireFox dont have many API calls that Explorer has .. So you will have to use some shell over it to try ... Nice idea though .. Ill see whenever I wont feel lazy
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FilledVoid
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ALthough I doubt Firefox would work as a shell replacement Im just not willing to try that out on my system as an experiement. I recall using Litestep some ages ago and the result was disastrous. Doesnt Litestep do the same thing ?
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