win firefox?

vandit said:

this one is for the ones who wish to experiment and are brave enough .......
currently our shell is explorer.exe..... what will happen if it is replaced by firefox? maybe faster,reliable ha ha aha aha ah ah ( slowly gets converted to ah ah ah ! if not done properly )

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what do you wanna ask ?

how can it be replaced ?

if you know then post here

This is just a fantasy/fiction. But could surely be possible in future if someone comes up with some replacable DLL files This would have bee much easier As if M$ source was known

tuxfan said:

This is just a fantasy/fiction. But could surely be possible in future if someone comes up with some replacable DLL files This would have bee much easier As if M$ source was known

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so now whats up what is the need of this topic in q+a section ?

yes I do know.... u can replace the shell of the win os with any other program.....

this is how to do it ....

start>run type msconfig
in the system.ini tab open the boot tree and find a key "shell=explorer.exe"
replace explorer.exe with any application u want.... remember this can be dangerous...I once tried this with notepad but then I reverted back as I was lucky enough that notepad allows us to modify .ini files...

yeah but it tells that the file cannot be replaced it is being used by another program

didn't u restart ur computer when asked for? this may be the problem..exp no1

Hmm.. FireFox dont have many API calls that Explorer has .. So you will have to use some shell over it to try ... Nice idea though .. Ill see whenever I wont feel lazy

ALthough I doubt Firefox would work as a shell replacement Im just not willing to try that out on my system as an experiement. I recall using Litestep some ages ago and the result was disastrous. Doesnt Litestep do the same thing ?