programmatically starting the Windows Explorer shell

[shx]

Let me see if I can explain what I'm trying to do.

I would like to start explorer.exe as the windows shell programmatically.

When Windows starts up instead of running Explorer which is the standard shell of Windows, I have developed a replacement. The registry is updated to point to this replacement so it starts up automatically when Windows starts.

what I would like to do is when I exit exit this replacement have explorer run as the window shell.

If I enter control alt delete to start the task manager and I do file > new task and run explorer.exe it will start the explorer windows shell, but if I run explorer.exe with a shellexecute or a run it just opens up a regular file explorer window.

So to sum up, what I am trying to do is to be able to programmatically from an autoit script start the Windows Explorer shell and I can't seem to do it.

I hope I was understandable. Any help would really be greatly appreciated.

This is a Windows7 64bit computer environment.

Steven

Edited December 20, 2012 by shx

[JayHawkfl]

This is an A-Z list of cmd line, What your looking for might be in here, I don't have time to look through it, sorry, I'm on a call at work

http://ss64.com/nt/

Edited December 20, 2012 by JayHawkfl

[shx]

I thank you for your help but I don't know if you understood what I am trying to do. I don't see where the information in your link would help me.

Here is a link to someone who wants to do something similar http://stackoverflow.com/a/5852995 I think that there is solution there in C#.

Thanks again.

[JLogan3o13]

You could do something like this:

$WMI = ObjGet("winmgmts:" & @ComputerName & "rootcimv2")
$process = $WMI.Get("win32_process")
$process.create("explorer.exe")

[shx]

JLogan3o13,

Much thanks and gratitude to you.

Your information helped me out and I was at my wits end.

Steven

[JLogan3o13]

Glad to be of service