Searching a REAL STANDALONE Shell

[HeadHunter2]

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.

[eyeball]

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?

[HeadHunter2]

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, 2007 by HeadHunter2

[uid0]

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

[bj-kaiser]

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.

[spacesurfer]

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.

[uid0]

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