customer shell

[Philipp Stampfl]

Hi all!

I'd like to start my application as a customer shell. I have tried to edit
the registry as described at the msdn and entered myapp.exe instead of
explorer.exe.

But after a reboot just nothing is viewd - no desktop, no taskbar (which is
great) just an empty background image.
When I press ctrl+alt+del I can see the standard windows options which tells
me that windows is up and running, just without a shell.

Does anyone have a clue how to get the customer shell thing working?

Thanks!

Phil

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Philipp,

For instance:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xpehelp/htm
l/xeconshellcustomization.asp

Regards,
Slobodan

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[Mule Skinner]

Is it possible to point to an application for the shell "after" an Image is
built. Say for example a full WinLogin/WinExplorer image was built. Is
there a way via registery edits to tell Xpe to load application.exe as the
shell instead of Explorer?

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Mule,

By changing registry you can even install drivers. So answer to your
question is yes.

You can change shell path it in registry at any time. I can't find it right
now, but look for values that call explorer.exe they are descriptive.

Regards,
Slobodan

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[Rick Thering]

The entry you want is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Edit the Shell value to be your application. What I ran into when I did
this was a timing problem where not everything was ready when my app
started, so the app would blow up (or not appear to start.) I added a
little vbs script to loop for a period of time, then run the application.
The best way I know to test if this will work for you is to go ahead and let
it come up as it currently is, then CTRL-ALT-Del it into the task manager
and run your application. If it runs, it is probably a timing issue, if it
still does not run, you may have a dependency still hanging.

Rick T.

 

[Richard]

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

The entry you want is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Edit the Shell value to be your application. What I ran into when I did
this was a timing problem where not everything was ready when my app
started, so the app would blow up (or not appear to start.) I added a
little vbs script to loop for a period of time, then run the application.
The best way I know to test if this will work for you is to go ahead and let
it come up as it currently is, then CTRL-ALT-Del it into the task manager
and run your application. If it runs, it is probably a timing issue, if it
still does not run, you may have a dependency still hanging.

Rick T.



http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xpehelp/htm instead