YKWIA Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 I've been having the thought of booting direclty into the MCE app and not into explorer, Is there a way a distribution can be made to remove all the unnessecare stuff, You know, (explorer, etc...) and boot directly into Media Center. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandrke Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 to remove explorer, I Don't knowto make Media Center Load on start up, either add the shortcut in to the startup folder or edit the registryIf you want to install this on all users (not recomended)1) open regedit (start menu > run, and type in regedit)2) go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon.3) Change Shell from explorer.exe to the new shell path e.g C:\Litestep\litestep.exe4) log out and log back in.or If you want to install this on just the current user (i.e. make a new Account)1) open regedit (start menu > run, and type in regedit).2) go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon.3) add a new string value (Edit > New > String Value) called shell. and set the value to the path of the new shell e.g C:\Litestep\litestep.exe.4) log out and log back in.If media center is your shell, make sure you can use the task manager to open programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peteski Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 or you could just add a startup entry for ehshell.exeit would be a lot simpler, but less efficient Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocent Devil Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 why use litestep ?why cant the "shell" be directly c:\windows\ehome\eshell.exe ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peteski Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 why cant the "shell" be directly c:\windows\ehome\eshell.exe ???because then all the shell calls would be run through media center Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bezalel Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 why use litestep ?why cant the "shell" be directly c:\windows\ehome\eshell.exe ???I think that was just a copy/paste error the wasn't completed. You can use eshell.exe as your shell but if you need to use other programs make sure you can still bring up the task manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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