XP SP2 w/shell replacement

[Bill Mote]

I applied SP2.  Don't ask me why.  I just did.  The cabinet works all the same as posted in my original build script.  There are a few extra services I'll have to disable and whether I'll leave the firewall on or not is up for debate.  Anyway, MAMEWah is my shell.  When I drop out of the shell I'm left at a black screen with the mouse just as before.  I press CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up the window with shutdown, lock, task manager options and I select task manager.  It opens just as before.  The interesting thing is when I choose File->Start New Task it AUTOMATICALLY opens a command prompt rather than letting me type something in a dialog box.

The kicker is that you can't type in the command prompt either.  This has to be a security "feature," but I can't figure out how/where to change it.

dot

[jfh2112]

My cab, before I blew the OS away yesterday, was also running XP SP2, and I didn't have that problem. Just tried it on my work PC as well; same thing.

Are you logging on as a local administrator or a restricted user? That may have something to do with it. 

[headkaze]

If you hold down the ALT key when selecting "New Task" from Task Manager it will open the Command Prompt. Seems you may have the ALT key stuck or something?

[Bill Mote]

I guess anything is possible, but I did remap my entire MAME key config such that I'm not using any of the "special" keys (CTRL, ALT, etc.)

dot

[Silver]

I use sp2 and don't have this issue (no command prompt - just a run dialog box).

Is this a normal sp2 installation, or is it customised?