Instant Sheller questions

[mcseforsale]

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

[Le Chuck]

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. 

[nussmier]

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.

[mcseforsale]

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.

[Le Chuck]

I did it by dropping the image link into the url link like so:

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[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. 

[mcseforsale]

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.   

AJ

[Le Chuck]

Lookin' fancy.  Once you resize you'll have to produce new links but that's faily easy.