Hi guys,

i'm doing some real crank stuff. My Windows only consumes 30Mbs of Ram.

Okay need to say that it now runs without a Shell, Explorer Shell and IE completely ripped out.

Thats why i ask you, which shell is a real standalone one?

I mean not one which needs the Explorer/IE Files.

how, why and does this just not give you loads of errors?

are you running on such poor hardware that you can only afford to use 30mb of ram?

The idea was to make Windows it should be. No crap, very very small registry, only an Operating System.

But M$ forgot to make its OS modulary so everything requires each other.

Thats why i look for a shell that doesn't need any Explorer and/or IE crap dlls.

Edited June 28, 200719 yr by HeadHunter2

You could try Nu2shell - I've only heard of it being used with BartPE rather than xp, but it might work.

Or there is always cmd.exe

what about LiteStep?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiteStep

I've toyed around with it in the past on Windows XP. But I can't say if it will run on a 'micro' XP.

nu2shell should work. when you create a bartpe cd and you insert it while windows xp is running, it autoruns nu2shell on top of your xp start menu/taskbar. of course it's barebone since registry values of bartpe aren't loaded but shows that it runs in xp.

That isn't the same as being the shell though, maybe I'll try it later.