I can not see start menu & taskbar in custom shell?

[tum]

Hi,
In my XPE with SP1, If I use my application as custom
shell，when run explorer.exe, I can not see start menu &
taskbar!If I use explorer shell, I can see it!
Why? I think I need them in my custom shell!
Anybody help me? Thanks.

 

[Slobodan Brcin]

Hi,

How explorer will look depends on environment and arguments passed to it
when executed.
Userinit is one of parts responsible for initializing and starting explorer
so he have startmenu and taskbar.

If your application should be shell, then you don't need explorer that have
taskbar and start menu.
If you need it, then you can put your application to be started in parallel
with userinit.exe.
This way you will have full explorer and your application.

Can you provide us with valid scenario why your application needs to run
full explorer.

Also try executing userinit.exe instead of explorer.exe


Regards,
Slobodan