Custom Shell

[Alessandro]

Dear All,

I need to implement the following:

- When logged as administrator the shell shall be Windows Explorer
- When logged as User (Not Administrator) the shell shall be the customer's
application.

I thank you all

Alessandro

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

There is an article on different shells for different users on MSDN that
covers what you are looking for. A link to the article can be found here
http://www.seanliming.com/Articles.html

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit.

 

[Guest]

if I use a custom shell in the HKLM tree and set the shell for the
Administrator account in HKCU to explorer.exe, the explorer ist started as
explorer and not as shell... how can i avoid this behavior. i need a explorer
shell for the administrator account...

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

Did you set the first registry key correctly?:

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot\Shell
Type: REG_SZ
Value: USR:Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit.

 

[ms]

Did you set the first registry key correctly?:

This was my fault I didn't see the little difference.

I use in the HKLM-Key my custom shell and for the Admin a different
shell. This works. But if I start an Explorer in my User-Accounts, this
Explorer ist started in shell mode... is this normal?

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

Yes, that is normal. I don't know the switch off hand to start it in File
Explorer mode.

-Sean