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Has anyone tried to change the explorer shell with Scope program?
I was playing around with that. There is setting in registry that selects the OS's shell:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon] "Shell"="explorer.exe"
I changed it to cmd.exe, which is the command prompt, however the problem is that it does not display system folders (probably there is a setting I don't know about) and all the taskbar apps are gone (can't start).

I don't know, I was just fooling around, I guess I got tired of the Explorer interface.

How about working with blank desktop, showing just some sort of tray and a clock.

Left-click clock for browser (explorer), right-click for TaskManager. Then a programs list for right-click in empty space and switching programs using middle mouse click.

Or anything else you were thinking of... There's a couple of script-based shell replacements out there, check them out!

Tried it once without Explorer.Just another shell and was very stable.Got busy to go into it deeper.

By all means, please try.

Some time ago i used AstonShell in place of explorer, in some ways it's much more usable, at least it is faster and managable shortcuts (assignable to any key, not only shift+ctrl+alt+tab+Z ) rulz.
also i still cannot find a replacement for aston's notepad (it is always open and autosaves info)