Mamewah As Frontend - Have I Cocked Up!

[M.A.M.E Power]

Ok have been configuring my PC for use in my cabinet, have done everything now - the last thing to do was set Mamewah as the shell.

Set it as the shell and works fine - but i cannot access windows now through that user account.

I can still access all i need through the admin account, was just wondering if it is normally done this way (i.e two accounts).

I guess it would be useful to be able to gain access to windows via the mamewah user account.

I await your knowledge!

Lea

[Farmboy90]

I don't think I understand what you did here.  When I set up my PC, the initial user account created had admin rights.  That is the only account needed.

I installed MameWAH and set up it.  Just drag and drop the MameWAH.exe into your startup folder.  Set XP to auto-login for you, and voila!  Every time your PC comes on, it will log itself in and launch mamewah.

[2600]

That is the point of a shell.  To allow you to do all the "windows" stuff.

Changing your shell to MAMEWAH means you chose to run MAMEWAH only.

However, there should be a way out. Directions may differ due to OS.

1. Alt-Ctl-Del
2. Task Manager
3. File -> Run
4. Type explorer

I "think" MAMEWAH has this ability to app_to_run_on_exit.  If you put explorer in there, when you exit MAMEWAH this should run.

[Farmboy90]

I can do all the windows stuff.  I just hit ESC when in Mamewah and it takes me back to windows.

[2600]

I can do all the windows stuff.  I just hit ESC when in Mamewah and it takes me back to windows.

You also aren't running MAMEWAH as your shell. 

You are running it like any other application which you are right it works just fine.

[M.A.M.E Power]

I have set it up so it loads straight until Mamewah and it works great.

2600 thanks for the get out, worked fine.

Can you please post the location of the explorer.exe so I can put it into the Mamewah.ini file so it runs that on exit.

Many thanks

Lea

[2600]

I have set it up so it loads straight until Mamewah and it works great.

2600 thanks for the get out, worked fine.

Can you please post the location of the explorer.exe so I can put it into the Mamewah.ini file so it runs that on exit.

Many thanks

Lea

Seriously, you are not the type of user that should be setting apps to the shell.

Get off your but and use windows search to find it.

[M.A.M.E Power]

Well it all seems to be working well so far.

I tried the default location C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE

For some reason that does not work, even though that is the location.

 

[2600]

Did you change exit_action?

[Flinkly]

sorry to write a bit off topic, but if you shell mamewah, and quit mamewah when your done gaming, does the comp just turn off?  and if you did want to do some changes to your setup, how would you go about getting back to windows?  could you stick windows in as an app that mamewah can start within itself if you needed to make changes?

i understand the basic workings of shelling, but i don't really want windows to start up everytime i go to turn off my cabinet.

[M.A.M.E Power]

Did you change exit_action?

No what do I have to alter that too, in order for it to run explorer.exe on exit.

All help is appreciated.

Lea

[Minwah]

No what do I have to alter that too, in order for it to run explorer.exe on exit.

Set:

exit_action run_app

...and:

exit_and_run_app_commandlines c:\windows\explorer.exe

OR you could just set:

exit_app_commandlines c:\windows\explorer.exe