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stimulant / ampm

application management + performance monitoring
MIT License
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Kill explorer on startup #1

Closed endquote closed 8 years ago

endquote commented 9 years ago

Let's look at killing explorer.exe when ampm starts up, and restoring it when it closes. This would disable the taskbar, windows charms, etc.

endquote commented 9 years ago

Killing explorer at startup is easy, but starting it up again automatically is hard.

An alternate solution:

set: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell to: taskmgr.exe

When you log on, you see nothing, but ctrl-shift-esc brings up task manager, and File > Run New Task is there which can be used to run explorer.