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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 6553"><p>it would be nice to be able to set media center as system shell.</p><p>but then it would have to get some added functionality, like starting windows startup programs from the registry, wich explorer normally handles.</p><p></p><p>by setting media portal as shell, explorer does not load at startup and you get a lot of extra recources, so media portal gets faster.</p><p></p><p>also, when you run explorer.exe from media portal when explorer is not set as shell, it does not start up the taskbar and desktop, it just boots a single explorer window.</p><p></p><p>it currently does not work with media portal, it gave me an error message. in theory it should work with any program.. but with some boot delay, if a program is specially written to act as a system shell this delay is gone.</p><p></p><p>some features that would be nice, when media portal starts as a shell.</p><p>system tray and some way to view a list of currently running programs. and a link to "my computer" for browsing. and starting windows startup programs from the registry, otherwise some peoples virusscanner wont startup.</p><p></p><p>I think it would be a realy good feature, and i don't believe there is much more programming needed for these functions. just the system tray can give some problems. perhaps taking a look at litestep could help...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 6553"] it would be nice to be able to set media center as system shell. but then it would have to get some added functionality, like starting windows startup programs from the registry, wich explorer normally handles. by setting media portal as shell, explorer does not load at startup and you get a lot of extra recources, so media portal gets faster. also, when you run explorer.exe from media portal when explorer is not set as shell, it does not start up the taskbar and desktop, it just boots a single explorer window. it currently does not work with media portal, it gave me an error message. in theory it should work with any program.. but with some boot delay, if a program is specially written to act as a system shell this delay is gone. some features that would be nice, when media portal starts as a shell. system tray and some way to view a list of currently running programs. and a link to "my computer" for browsing. and starting windows startup programs from the registry, otherwise some peoples virusscanner wont startup. I think it would be a realy good feature, and i don't believe there is much more programming needed for these functions. just the system tray can give some problems. perhaps taking a look at litestep could help... [/QUOTE]
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