Let me see if I can explain what I'm trying to do.
I would like to start explorer.exe as the windows shell programmatically.
When Windows starts up instead of running Explorer which is the standard shell of Windows, I have developed a replacement. The registry is updated to point to this replacement so it starts up automatically when Windows starts.
what I would like to do is when I exit exit this replacement have explorer run as the window shell.
If I enter control alt delete to start the task manager and I do file > new task and run explorer.exe it will start the explorer windows shell, but if I run explorer.exe with a shellexecute or a run it just opens up a regular file explorer window.
So to sum up, what I am trying to do is to be able to programmatically from an autoit script start the Windows Explorer shell and I can't seem to do it.
I hope I was understandable. Any help would really be greatly appreciated.
This is a Windows7 64bit computer environment.
Steven
I would like to start explorer.exe as the windows shell programmatically.
When Windows starts up instead of running Explorer which is the standard shell of Windows, I have developed a replacement. The registry is updated to point to this replacement so it starts up automatically when Windows starts.
what I would like to do is when I exit exit this replacement have explorer run as the window shell.
If I enter control alt delete to start the task manager and I do file > new task and run explorer.exe it will start the explorer windows shell, but if I run explorer.exe with a shellexecute or a run it just opens up a regular file explorer window.
So to sum up, what I am trying to do is to be able to programmatically from an autoit script start the Windows Explorer shell and I can't seem to do it.
I hope I was understandable. Any help would really be greatly appreciated.
This is a Windows7 64bit computer environment.
Steven