Run windows without Explorer?

PiKe · 2 Oct 2007 at 10:13

Is it possible to kill explorer and not have it automatically restart itself?

PiKe · 2 Oct 2007 at 10:27

But I don't require the whole gui for what I want to use it for.

PiKe · 2 Oct 2007 at 11:52

IAmATeaf said:
Depends what you want to run instead but if you go to the registry key:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\WinLogon\Shell

you can change that from the default explorer.exe to another windows executable, when you next restart and logon that will be the high level shell that windows will use.

Cheers.

PiKe · 2 Oct 2007 at 13:19

explorer.exe does restart itself.

PiKe · 2 Oct 2007 at 13:25

Matt-Page said:
Yes it does Sometimes but not always. Can i ask why you want to do this? I know you can replace explorer.exe with unix based/alternate versions. Are you finding it using up most of your CPU/MEM usage?

Just want to free up CPU time.