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| emopants92:
I have gone into regedit and edited "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot" the string Shell to my mamewah.exe location but every time it starts it just shows up with nothing but a my documents window open? |
| Turnarcades:
You must have either typed something wrong with the mamewah.exe location or you've set something else up wrong in Windows. Check your 'startup' folder from the start menu and ensure you've got nothing in there. |
| Ginsu Victim:
Look up InstantSheller. It makes things easier. |
| emopants92:
Thanks for the quick replay, i was fiddling with it for the past couple of hours. I re-follwed the directs at hiding windows on the byoac wiki. And did the 2 accounts one arcade and one called extra. Now the computer only boots up and goes directly into an account called administrator and cant get back into my arcade account to edit the registry to see if i miss spelled something again or not. So basically im going to delete my arcade account and used the one called extra because it makes no difference because my mame and mamwah is on my c: drive. The only issue is trying to get it to boot in the shell any other tips or something im missing? and instant sheller gives me error because im running it on a motherboard from 1999 (i think or 2000) and i upgraded the processor and running windows xp. I get some net. framework error or something, i can get the whole error if you want to help me get the instant sheller working. Thanks for the help! |
| severdhed:
well, where to begin... when you go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot and change the shell value, you do not point directly to your front end there..you point it to which registry key to check...originally it should have said: SYS:Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon and to do it properly according to the wiki, you should change the first 3 characters to USR to make it: USR:Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon then, go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon find the Value named Shell and set it to the path of your front end. (by changing it to USR above, this tells it to only load that as shell when that specific user is logged in. if you are having problems with it automatically logging in as the wrong user, and then not running the desktop. press ctrl + shift + esc to bring up the task manager...then do file - new task. from that point you could run regedit to make the proper changes. you could also do this to run "control userpasswords2" to select the proper user that you want it to automatically log in as. i hope that helps... |
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