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emopants92:
followed ur instructions above and went back and redid it with the boyac wiki instructions and still i get a blue desktop screen with nothing but my mouse and my start up folder is empty
severdhed:
it could be a few things. 

1. are there any spaces in the path to your front end?  (ex: c:\program files\mala\mala.exe)  if so, when you specify the path in that registry key, put it in quotes..ex: "c:\program files\mala\mala.exe"

usually if you are getting a My Documents window popping up, there is something calling explorer.exe to launch, which is wierd.  i had a similar problem on my cabinet where i could not get the front end to load as shell no matter what i did.  as it turned out, it was due to a software conflict with a dell wireless usb adapter driver.  i had a dell usb wireless adapter installed for network connectivity, and when i installed the driver, it installed a wireless utility.  i had to remove the wireless utility and just manually install the driver for the adapter..as soon as i removed that utility, everything worked well.  so it could be a conflict with something you have installed, but figuring that out could be very difficult
emopants92:
Yep tried the quotes in the sting value same effect a blue desktop with nothing but a mouse (not taskbar, start button, icons, etc) Is there any other shelling programs out there that work?
severdhed:
when you are at your desktop, and you manually launch explorer, does it load the desktop, or just open up a file explorer window?
emopants92:
it loads my desktop, and what i mean is all i see is a completely blue (like the deafault background of windows xp) with just my mouse cursor and i have to click ctrl alt delt to bring up task manager then run program then explorer.exe and it loads my entire desktop with icons and task bar. Hope that clarifies it
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