I checked msconfig and didn't see a way to disable it from there. What I want to do is have my desktop load up without it, so I can free up some ram, get used to and practice running my computer via the (limited) dos command line, and be able to run explorer through task manager if I so choose.
Anyone know how to do it, if possible?
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Disabling/removing explorer.exe on startup (WinXP)
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Oh dear god I'm an idiot, I forgotMr Bean wrote:Classic line question first
Whaat verison of Windwos you using?
WinXP SP1
"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
Heheheh, I put down d as the file name for the interface~ Don't know if that will make work though~
"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
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Why would you want to disable it?
Ending it when installing XviD or when you're AFK is one thing... but why do you want it disabled from the getgo?
Ending it when installing XviD or when you're AFK is one thing... but why do you want it disabled from the getgo?
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Because I want to feel smarter than your average bear?DPDarkPrimus wrote:Why would you want to disable it?
Ending it when installing XviD or when you're AFK is one thing... but why do you want it disabled from the getgo?
Seriously, I heard you can free a good amount of ram (21+ megs) and CPU with the process ended. I want to get used to operating something from a command line, anyway.
"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
If you want to get used to operating something from a command line, you might as well just switch to Linux.Hamel wrote:Because I want to feel smarter than your average bear?
Seriously, I heard you can free a good amount of ram (21+ megs) and CPU with the process ended. I want to get used to operating something from a command line, anyway.
People use Windows with the start menu and the rest of the GUI on for a reason you know. 
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Too much shit to back up with a normal cd burner~ I'm not getting any *nix until I eitherShinova wrote:If you want to get used to operating something from a command line, you might as well just switch to Linux.Hamel wrote:Because I want to feel smarter than your average bear?
Seriously, I heard you can free a good amount of ram (21+ megs) and CPU with the process ended. I want to get used to operating something from a command line, anyway.
a) Get a spare junker to run it on, or
b) Back everything up on DVDs
But I don't have a DVD burner, and 120 gigs of backups on CD isn't a pretty sight
"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
I could fondle my imaginary vagina too, but that isn't gonna happen... yetShinova wrote:Of course, you could just grab an extra hard drive, use that as the Linux boot.
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Operating the computer from the prompt and task manager hasn't been bad so far
"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
Well slap mah knees and call me a silly billy thenphongn wrote:It's kinda silly, IMNSHO, using Windows with just the command-line.
"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
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Besides what would ya use the command line for anyway? Unless you have really old DOS versions of Word perfect/Lotus/etc, I can't see how you could use programs w/o requiring the GUI to be loaded.
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I use to run without explorer back in my old 256ram days. Just running everything from Task manager. Ahh the good ol' days...
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BTW, I tried that, and it didn't change anything.
"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
Err, there's always task manager for things dos can't do.GoldenFalcon wrote:Besides what would ya use the command line for anyway? Unless you have really old DOS versions of Word perfect/Lotus/etc, I can't see how you could use programs w/o requiring the GUI to be loaded.
Oh man, there's some kind of linux distro that you can run entirely from the CD without needing an installation. My brother showed it to me months ago but I've forgotten the name of it. Anyone know?
"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
Windows's GUI will load no matter what, but you can use something besides EXPLORER.EXE (like LiteStep, for example, or the Task Manager).GoldenFalcon wrote:Besides what would ya use the command line for anyway? Unless you have really old DOS versions of Word perfect/Lotus/etc, I can't see how you could use programs w/o requiring the GUI to be loaded.
I got it right this time~ Replaced it with cmd.exephongn wrote:What did you put in the field in gpedit.msc? C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CMD.EXE ?
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"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
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Erm....why don't you just find yourself a nice shell to replace Explorer with?
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If you know of a good one, fill me in, because I will not be arsed to look for one when I'm satisfied with what I haveVertigo1 wrote:Erm....why don't you just find yourself a nice shell to replace Explorer with?
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"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
When I load up explorer, a whole SHITLOAD of processes come with it. Commit charge shot up to 128.phongn wrote:How on Earth is Explorer using up that much memory?
Fuck, tried to reduce it by shutting down svchost, system going down in 10 secs =/ (edit: back up)
Anyone know how to access display options without loading up explorer? I ran control panel from task manager, but that also brought up explorer.
"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."