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absvicandmark:
Hi, ive decided to use mamewah for my cab. The roms and screenshots are all setup nicely and work well. However, I was hoping to stop explorer booting up and just mamewah and then if I exit mamewah then it will load explorer.exe . I read somewhere of a tutorial so im pretty confident. However, is there a way to get back into explorer if I do something wrong and mamewah doesnt load? I didnt want to do this just yet incase I mess it up (It took over 2 hours to load all my roms!). Im using mame087 with complete rom set for this and latest mamewah with Windows ME.
Also is there somewhere on here that explains how to hide Win ME? I found the XP thread but this is specific to XP.

knohbody:
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Mamewah_FAQ

Near the bottom, it has a section on setting up Mamewah as your shell. It also shows how you can set up Explorer to run when Mamewah is exited.

AFAIK, setting up Mamewah as your shell will hide Win ME, but I may be wrong about that.

Hope this helps.

-Knohbody

DaveMMR:
I think the best way to hide WindowsME is to take it to the desert, dig a hole and bury it as deep as you can.   ;D   

DaemonCollector:
That Wiki page dosn't really help him as its specific to NT operating systems whereas ME is the last 9x operating system they made. Its actually very easy to set it as your shell in ME. Go to Start, Run. and type in "notepad C:\windows\system.ini". when it opens you'll see a line called [boot] slightly under that you'll find a line that says "shell = explorer.exe" or something to that effect, replace explorer.exe with the path to your MameWAH executable. Reboot. And enjoy.

gamecreature:

--- Quote from: DaemonCollector on June 25, 2006, 01:16:47 pm ---That Wiki page dosn't really help him as its specific to NT operating systems whereas ME is the last 9x operating system they made. Its actually very easy to set it as your shell in ME. Go to Start, Run. and type in "notepad C:\windows\system.ini". when it opens you'll see a line called [boot] slightly under that you'll find a line that says "shell = explorer.exe" or something to that effect, replace explorer.exe with the path to your MameWAH executable. Reboot. And enjoy.

--- End quote ---

Oddly enough that didn't work for me. I was using MaLa as my frontend, but I don't see how that would make a difference. What happened was that it displayed an error and said I'd have to re-install windows to fix it. Fortunately, the machine was on a network and I was able to get back in there and re-edit the sys.ini file. Currently, I put MaLa in my Startup folder, which accomplishes the task. I'll need to do a little hiding with the logo screens, etc. but it gets the job done.

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