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Office 2010! Help n Hello Worldn What is the Windows xp shell?
The term shell reffers to the graphical user interface (gui) i.e the desktop and the task bar, basically explorer.exe (the default windows shell).
Where can I find a replacment shell?
The best place to start is with some shell information sites,
Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2007, I would recommend Shell-Shocked,
Windows 7 Product Key,
Try these:
Litestep
Xoblite (Blackbox)
Geoshell
I would personally recommend Litestep.
now you have a shell heres how to manually set the default shell in windows xp
Changing the default shell (all users):
1) open regedit (start menu > run,
Office Professional Plus 2010, and type in regedit)
2) go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon.
3) Change Shell from explorer.exe to the new shell path e.g C:\Litestep\litestep.exe
4) log out and log back in.
Changing the default shell (only current user):
1) open regedit (start menu > run,
Office 2007 Enterprise, and type in regedit).
2) go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon.
3) add a new string value (Edit > New > String Value) called shell. and set the value to the path of the new shell e.g C:\Litestep\litestep.exe.
4) log out and log back in.