I believe you will find that the shell has to be loaded at boot. Have you
noticed that many shell changes take a reboot before they will appear?

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"Oenone" wrote in message
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I have a Windows 98 machine which I've set up to be dedicated to run a
single program every time it boots. To get the best startup and memory
usage performance from it I've modified SYSTEM.INI so that the shell entry
points to this program instead of Explorer.exe.

This all works perfectly and my program starts up fine.

On occasion, however, I do actually want to get into normal Explorer (to
copy files to/from the computer over the network, for example). The
program I'm running has the option to launch other programs, so I thought
I'd simply need to run Explorer.exe from here. However when I do this, I
just get a single Explorer window open instead of getting the whole
Windows user interface (so I'm not getting the Start button, task bar,
desktop icons, etc.).

Is there something I can do when I'm launching Explorer to make it launch
the whole shell? Or is the only way to do this to launch from SYSTEM.INI?

Thanks for any help anyone can offer,

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(O)enone