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Billium   12-21-2004 at 10:37:09 AM

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In older versions of Windows, you could edit the System.INI file to change
the "Shell=Explorer.exe" Can you still do that with Windows XP?

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Anonymous   12-21-2004 at 07:58:50 PM
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Billium wrote:

> In older versions of Windows, you could edit the System.INI file to change
> the "Shell=Explorer.exe" Can you still do that with Windows XP?
Hi

Yes, but you need to do it in registry.

The shell to be used is the Shell value under the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\



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