Disabling/removing explorer.exe on startup (WinXP)

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-03-08 02:27am

In the SYSTEM32 direcotry there are a bunch of .CPL files, just run them.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-03-08 02:32am

phongn wrote:In the SYSTEM32 direcotry there are a bunch of .CPL files, just run them.

I didn't see any files with that extension.

edit: nevermind, found them.

Well, couldnt find one that pointed to the display options. There was an access file that brought me to the sticky key, etc options. One of them, acctres, couldn't be ran. There were only 3 of them I think.

edit: found desk.cpl

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-03-08 12:30pm

Knoppix.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2004-03-10 04:30pm

Ace Pace wrote:Knoppix.

Thirdeddddd

how much stuff could you possibly have that you want to back up ?

=T

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-03-10 07:54pm

You don't even need to free the entire hard drive. Just 3-4 Gb. 8-10 at most(if you want to install everything and play around without mounting windows partitions). Defragment the drive and use Partition Magic to create a new partion for Linux. Voila.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-03-10 08:19pm

Resizing is always hazardous(though I've done it tons of time on difficult to replace data not backed up). Also, partition magic isn't free(although there is a resizer for NTFS on sourceforge, and for other filesystems).