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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: mcseforsale on March 18, 2013, 02:13:52 pm
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Been poking around a bit re: software setups, and I keep hearing good things about Instant Sheller. So, I just have a few questions. I am currently shelling to Mamewah the old fashioned way via the registry. The PC is a P4 3GHz with 2GB ram running XP pro SP3.
1.) when you exit Mamewah to windows, are you left with the black screen where you can Ctrl-Alt-Delete and launch Task Manager, then run Explorer, or is it simpler than that?
2.) having recently installed SKJukebox, I need a *touch* of windows since it's a windows app. Does Instant Sheller affect this?
3.) what does instant sheller do besides modify the registry and make shell=X.exe and change the pointers, etc?
Thanks!
AJ
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I haven't used instant sheller since 2007-ish. Instead I've just gone through the steps to minimize the windows environment, direct boot into the game/FE, and redid the boot images for a cleaner appearance. It's not as quick as instant sheller but it doesn't take that long either and I still have access to everything I need. I just have two separate shutdowns. One by hotkey combo exits MALA to windows and one shuts down the system (power button).
I found instant sheller to have too many negative side affects although it has been so long I have trouble remember what they were. IIRC Howard was pretty helpful in steering me in this direction.
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I have used Instant Sheller and not really had any issues. Howard knows way more about this than I do so I trust his opinion but I personally haven't had any issues. When you exit your front end you end up with a black screen where you have to run task manager than run explorer.exe If you rerun instantsheller there is just a big undo button click it and everything goes back to the way it was. I have no experience with how it runs with SKJukebox as I don't run that. I would download it and look at the options. You can look at it without making any changes.
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That's basically what my solution does. Sound like instant sheller is an interface that makes all the changes that my .reg files do. I thought about writing an .EXE that does the same thing, but I'm the only one who will work on my cabs and leaving the .REG files in a WIDGETS folder within the mamewah directory is good enough for me.
Thanks for the info all....
P.S. LeChuck, I just revisited your micro SW cab and I had to watch the movie again. how do you embed the links at the bottom of your sig like that? my html-fu is very weak.
AJ
I have used Instant Sheller and not really had any issues. Howard knows way more about this than I do so I trust his opinion but I personally haven't had any issues. When you exit your front end you end up with a black screen where you have to run task manager than run explorer.exe If you rerun instantsheller there is just a big undo button click it and everything goes back to the way it was. I have no experience with how it runs with SKJukebox as I don't run that. I would download it and look at the options. You can look at it without making any changes.
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I did it by dropping the image link into the url link like so:
[url=http://tinyurl.com/cgsy9do][img]http://tinyurl.com/btel4ox[/img][/url] [url=http://tinyurl.com/6mofr4k][img]http://tinyurl.com/cvo3q9u[/img][/url] [url=http://tinyurl.com/d4de7so][img]http://tinyurl.com/cuyk6yy[/img][/url]
I converted the links to my projects and the images I wanted in my sig to tiny urls because there is a 400 character limit in the sig and I would have went bingo. With these I have room for almost two more ;)
If there is a more betterer way that anyone has I'm all ears. I've been meaning to do that for a while and had a spare coupla minutes yesterday so got after some maintenance.
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Thanks man! That worked. I'll have to modify the pics a little later, but that worked. I tried it before but they were too long. tinyurl...whoda thunk. :banghead:
AJ
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Lookin' fancy. Once you resize you'll have to produce new links but that's faily easy.