Re: Printing delayed when using alternate shell (not explorer.exe)

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"Berni" wrote:

| Hello,
|
| I am quite desperate because I have to build a "closed system", that is,
| nobody may be able to easily delete files or change configuration.
| Therefore I wrote my own little shell
| ("HKLM\...\WindowsNT\Winlogon\shell=xxx") which does nothing but
| starting some programs and then waits until they have been closed.
|
| The effect is that if I start notepad.exe and print a text like "TEST",
| printing takes 5 sec after I pressed OK button on the printer dialog. In
| case I use "explorer.exe" as the windows shell,
| it will only take less than 1 sec. There is no difference in case I
| print eg. six times consecutively. Each time the print dialog shows up
| it will again 5 secs before printing starts.
|
| I already listet up all the .DLLs explorer.exe uses and loaded them
| using "LoadLibrary". I opened the printer myself and kept the printer
| handle and printer spooler open but even this did not speed up printing.
| As far as I can see, Windows XP does not load any further DLL while
| notepad is printing but even this did not lead to an acceleration.
|
| When using Windows 2000 everything works 100%, but under Windows XP it
| does not work. I do not get rid of the delay.
|
| I even tested some free shells "liteshell" etc, they all have the same
| problem. Printing is much slower than using "explorer.exe" as the shell.
|
| Does anybody have an idea on that? How can I print fast without using
| explorer.exe as the shell?
|
| Thank you at least for reading.
| Berni.
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