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Old 09-27-2008   #1 (permalink)


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to stop explorer.exe at startup in vista-home

hello friends,
I am posting a doubt,
I want to stop exporer.exe at each startup,I am using Vista home edition

How can I do that?
Plz help me

thanks in advance
Deval

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Old 09-27-2008   #2 (permalink)
Al Dunbar


 
 

Re: to stop explorer.exe at startup in vista-home

I'm not sure about Vista , but on XP, explorer is the component that
displays the desktop. Do you have in mind to run some alternate user
interface?

/Al

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>
> hello friends,
> I am posting a doubt,
> I want to stop exporer.exe at each startup,I am using Vista home
> edition
>
> How can I do that?
> Plz help me
>
> thanks in advance
> Deval
>
>
> --
> deval

My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 09-28-2008   #3 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Re: to stop explorer.exe at startup in vista-home

yes,
i need to run my program at each startup ,i want that the user can't do anything until the program has been completed.
If i stop explorer.exe user can not view even taskbar and icons on the desktop,and thus my purpose is solved
but I don't know how to stop explorer.exe at startup using any coding,
can i do that by updating somewhere in registry?if yes then how

plz help me

thank you
deval
My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 10-04-2008   #4 (permalink)
Sa6ry


 
 

Re: to stop explorer.exe at startup in vista-home

Replace explorer.exe with your exe .. and from within your exe launch
explorer.exe

to convert your vbscript to exe check this site
http://www.vbs2exe.com/

Regards,
A.Sa6ry

"deval" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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Quote:

>
> hello friends,
> I am posting a doubt,
> I want to stop exporer.exe at each startup,I am using Vista home
> edition
>
> How can I do that?
> Plz help me
>
> thanks in advance
> Deval
>
>
> --
> deval

My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 10-05-2008   #5 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Re: to stop explorer.exe at startup in vista-home

thank you for your reply

Deval
My System SpecsSystem Spec
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