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<blockquote data-quote="D4v1d5" data-source="post: 150295" data-attributes="member: 50451">I was setting up a HTPC and installed MP without any problems. Now I boosted up my XP bootup but when I put Mediaportal.exe as a shell I got a warning of &quot;Nothing will be rendered blablabla&quot;.I was looking around on this forum and found out that MP starts too early and the Direct3D isn't loaded yet. So I searched for other solution but couldn't find a proper solution (wait.exe or something that can delay a batch). But if I use that at startup I can see a command screen that's why I created a explorer.exe replacement.I thought maybe other people have the same problem as me so I share it with everybody.Info explorer.exe- It's a program that don't show any windows or anything (handles in the background).- It delays the mediaportal from starting up untill everything is loaded.- Don't really replace this explorer.exe with your explorer.exe in the window directory. - It reads options from explorer.ini, like the pause time and the mediaportal.exe location.- You can use this explorer.exe as your shell (change it in the regedit &quot; HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon&quot; and set the value of Shell to the exact location of the custom explorer.exe, for example c:\MediaPortal\explorer.exe)- You can change the explorer.exe name into anything you like but don't change the name of explorer.ini.Hope I can help anybody with this.Enjoy</blockquote>

[QUOTE="D4v1d5, post: 150295, member: 50451"] I was setting up a HTPC and installed MP without any problems. Now I boosted up my XP bootup but when I put Mediaportal.exe as a shell I got a warning of "Nothing will be rendered blablabla". I was looking around on this forum and found out that MP starts too early and the Direct3D isn't loaded yet. So I searched for other solution but couldn't find a proper solution (wait.exe or something that can delay a batch). But if I use that at startup I can see a command screen that's why I created a explorer.exe replacement. I thought maybe other people have the same problem as me so I share it with everybody. [B]Info explorer.exe[/B] - It's a program that don't show any windows or anything (handles in the background). - It delays the mediaportal from starting up untill everything is loaded. - Don't really replace this explorer.exe with your explorer.exe in the window directory. - It reads options from explorer.ini, like the pause time and the mediaportal.exe location. - You can use this explorer.exe as your shell (change it in the regedit " HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" and set the value of Shell to the exact location of the custom explorer.exe, for example c:\MediaPortal\explorer.exe) - You can change the explorer.exe name into anything you like but don't change the name of explorer.ini. Hope I can help anybody with this. Enjoy [/QUOTE]

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