Re: What is Custom Shell Application???

No real difference. You're custom shell could be Quake3, or Internet
Explorer, or a Calculator, or any other executable that you create yourself.
The custom shell component simply tells the operating system *which*
executable to launch as the shell in place of Explorer.exe.

Andy

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"Sai Kit Tong" <sktong@mmm.com> wrote in message
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> I went through a couple of articles in XP Embedded, particularly in
creating
> a custom shell as well as the book Windows XP Embedded Step by Step. Both
> describes how to create a custom shell starting with a CUSTOM SHELL
> application. However, they all refer the information on creating a custom
> shell application to Windows SDK or DDK documentation. However, I couldn't
> find any creation of "custom shell application" from those documentation
> through searching. Could anyone point me to the right article?
>
> What are the main differences between a custom shell application and a
> typical win32 application?
>
>