I agree with everything Alan said, and strongly recommend a read of his article for anyone wishing to make a foray into the world of alternative shells.
If I were to do this, I wouldn't want to have explorer.exe running if it could be helped. Since Powerpro will be used (it is already being used for other things like disabling right click etc.) I would perhaps opt for setting PP as the shell (it's easy, see the article for details). That would take care of people using a lot of windows standard shortcuts I believe. (Not Alt+tab though - that doesn't require explorer.exe to work.) If you just have the kiosk application running, Alt+tab wouldn't be much of a problem though. > The reason I mentioned it is that kiosk situations have a > particular need for removing the "shell" part of the windows OS. Definitely. > I agree completely with Ravi's suggestion of either Liteshell > or Litestep (Litestep can be huge if you install lots of > modules, which can take a lot of time to select, but in a > kiosk setup, you don't need any of them, just litestep.exe > and a very brief step.rc, and maybe one popup menu?, and > maybe a tray module (IF you want the users to have a tray). Perhaps a hotkey module as well. I think you can disable some standard windows hotkeys by defining them within a shell and setting the action to !none (in Litestep for example). An added benefit would be to give the administrator some secret keys for easy access to things (control panel items, reboots, respawning the browser etc.). You remain with several options to start the kiosk application (browser?): userinit, start within PP/Shell, etc. Most shells process the various startup registry keys properly. You could also have a simple monitor script in PP to respawn the browser if it crashes. > My personal choice is to install an absolutely minimal > LiteStep, including the essential VTray.dll, and make the > rest of my "shell" > with PowerPro. Alan, if you're updating your kit, check out xtray.dll - that seems to be the fashionable tray module (updated, made compatible with applications etc) these days. The general concensus is that the x-modules are the currrent winners. -- Ravi (http://shell-shocked.org) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/JV_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Attention: PowerPro's Web site has moved: http://www.ppro.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
