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Best alternative XP shell


likwit

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I'm looking for an alternative shell for Windows XP that replaces explorer.exe.

There's so many of them.. it's hard to pick. Explorer tends to use 19MB all the time and that's too **** much... I'd rather have a shell that takes 5MB or so without all the fancy stuff (I already use the classic theme).

Does anyone know a simple shell without any bloat and special effects that takes up very little resources? Thanks.

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are these full shell replacements or just basic function replacements?

this is a just a basic function replacement... but not a full substitute: BBLean

this is more of a full replacement but... it's not a single file so it would be harder to splipstreamonto a uA install of windows: Aston

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ASTON is VERY good, but it is Shareware/Commercial.

This is a GOOD freeware one:

http://www.bb4win.org/news.php

It is in continual development, and is derived from a Linux project:

http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/

http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/DownloadBlackbox

so you can have the same shell/window manager under Windows AND Linux

jaclaz

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