Re: How do I start button and taskbar and still have windows explorer and control panel?

From: Yannick Chamming's [eMVP] (ychammings_nospam_at_adeset.com)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 08:23:06 +0200

First, you should launch your app instead of "explorer.exe", not "shell.exe"

Next, you might need to have some shell capabilities in your app to manage
multi application environment when explorer is not launched. Consequently,
it might imply for you to change the explorer app to disable ist own shell
capabilities to avoid conflicts with your app when you launch it 

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"Selin Metin" <nospam@nospam.com.tr> wrote in message
news:OJM25MRrEHA.192@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi everyone,
>
> I want to disable the start button and taskbar of my platform. I cleared
the
> desktop shortcuts of recycle bin and my computer using the following
> registry settings:
>
> ; @CESYSGEN IF SHELL_MODULES_CESHELL
>
> ; Explorer desktop special folders
> ;
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Explorer\Desktop]
>    "{000214A1-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"=-
>    "{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"=-
>
> ; @CESYSGEN ENDIF SHELL_MODULES_CESHELL
>
> Now I want to make the start button and taskbar disappear. However I want
to
> be able to reach the control panel (especially network settings
application)
> and windows explorer from my application. My application is launched at
> startup from the startup folder. I will make, for example, a button in my
> app which launches the network settings application when pressed and
another
> button which opens windows explorer for the user to be able to browse
> through the folders of the permanent storage. I can't use aygshell
> components because I want my platform to have core licence. I want to use
> the platform.reg as much as possible to achieve these settings.
>
> Will I be able to use the control panel and explorer applications if I
> launch my app instead of shell.exe in HKLM\init? I looked up google ng
> postings but most of them provide code snippets of disabling the taskbar
> with apis. I will appreciate any help.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Selin Metin
> selinm_at_esit_dot_com_dot_tr
>
>