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Delete explorer.exe? Thread last updated on 2004-05-12 00:37:43

Posted by member 150329 on 2004-05-10 19:21:39

Being that I have no interest in ever going back to explorer as a shell.Could I delete explorer.exe or Is it stil useful.

Posted by member 35 on 2004-05-10 20:22:05 link

nope, it's still used by the os (file manager) and other apps.

Posted by member 99 on 2004-05-10 23:10:02 link

explorer.exe: 237 kB
total disk space: ??,???,??? kB

If you're not using win9x, you can probably delete explorer.exe all you like. It'll come back. (er, but do so at your own risk :)

Posted by member 111 on 2004-05-11 01:06:10 link

open regedit and try to find "explorer"...
do you want to delete explorer.exe now?

Posted by member 159532 on 2004-05-11 16:17:20 link

well...just one questiton...how do you set explorer as a shell?

Posted by member 157543 on 2004-05-11 17:05:11 link

WHAT??? WE MUST KILL YOU NOW!!!!

Okay, just kidding. I'm assuming you used litestep and want explorer back. You might already have a shortcut that will do it for you. It would be on your desktop and say 'Set Explorer as my shell' or something similar. If you don't have that, you can do it the old-fashoned way.
Go to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.INI and change

shell=D:\LITESTEP\LITESTEP.EXE

to

shell=C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE

then restart, and it should load up explorer.
Keep in mind my file paths will be different than yours are.

Posted by member 99 on 2004-05-12 00:37:43 link

That only works on Win9x. Use SetShell.exe, should be in $LiteStepDir$\utilities. It has a button, "Explorer." That's what the shortcut probably uses.