Custom Shell on Win98

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From: nicolasr
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 00:21

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Hi,

I need to replace the Windows shell on a Win98 machine.
From a few other newsgroup posts I found that this can
be done altering the "shell=Explorer.exe" entry in system.ini.

My problem is:
I don't want to set the shell value directly to my own shell but
to a little program that let's the user select the shell to start.
The problem is if I want to start the default shell from this
"Launcher" via the following code

ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "Explorer.exe", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

it only creates a new Explorer window and does not create the usual desktop,
taskbar etc.

How can I  accomplish this?

thanks for every idea,
Nick

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