Brandon Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 how does one disable explorer.exe from starting up at windows logon? XP Pro Sp2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double-D Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 if im not mistaken, you kinda need explorer.exe to run if you wanna see anything on startup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trance Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 you mean as the shell? HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell You can change it to whatever you like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankyone Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon find the "shell" key and remove explorer.exe edit: beaten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Posted December 23, 2004 Author Share Posted December 23, 2004 which i dont lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xahid Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 explorer.exe is a Shell ! you can't disable it! if you disable it than you can't logon into windows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankyone Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 explorer.exe is a Shell ! you can't disable it!if you disable it than you can't logon into windows! 585151321[/snapback] yes you can still logon, but no taskbar use ctrl-alt-del to run your programs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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