Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch GoogleMazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml – 556 points – 1 years agotheverge.com130Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent comment@theshatterstone54 @olympus Yes, you can remove explorer.exe and run an alternative shell. I've done it.How? Please, please let me know. That sounds like a fun project, and I've already got a Windows VM I don't use.@theshatterstone54 It basically a registry entry that you change. superuser.com/questions/1016380/how-do-i-replace-the-system-shell-explorer-exe-with-another-process-in-windows#1016381 I’ve used litestep in the past for about 10 minutes. litestep.net/ But there are others: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_WindowsOkay, I was hoping this could pave the way to more tiling window managers on Windows, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
@theshatterstone54 @olympus Yes, you can remove explorer.exe and run an alternative shell. I've done it.How? Please, please let me know. That sounds like a fun project, and I've already got a Windows VM I don't use.@theshatterstone54 It basically a registry entry that you change. superuser.com/questions/1016380/how-do-i-replace-the-system-shell-explorer-exe-with-another-process-in-windows#1016381 I’ve used litestep in the past for about 10 minutes. litestep.net/ But there are others: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_WindowsOkay, I was hoping this could pave the way to more tiling window managers on Windows, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
How? Please, please let me know. That sounds like a fun project, and I've already got a Windows VM I don't use.@theshatterstone54 It basically a registry entry that you change. superuser.com/questions/1016380/how-do-i-replace-the-system-shell-explorer-exe-with-another-process-in-windows#1016381 I’ve used litestep in the past for about 10 minutes. litestep.net/ But there are others: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_WindowsOkay, I was hoping this could pave the way to more tiling window managers on Windows, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
@theshatterstone54 It basically a registry entry that you change. superuser.com/questions/1016380/how-do-i-replace-the-system-shell-explorer-exe-with-another-process-in-windows#1016381 I’ve used litestep in the past for about 10 minutes. litestep.net/ But there are others: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_WindowsOkay, I was hoping this could pave the way to more tiling window managers on Windows, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
Okay, I was hoping this could pave the way to more tiling window managers on Windows, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
@theshatterstone54 @olympus Yes, you can remove explorer.exe and run an alternative shell. I've done it.
How? Please, please let me know. That sounds like a fun project, and I've already got a Windows VM I don't use.
@theshatterstone54 It basically a registry entry that you change.
superuser.com/questions/1016380/how-do-i-replace-the-system-shell-explorer-exe-with-another-process-in-windows#1016381
I’ve used litestep in the past for about 10 minutes.
litestep.net/
But there are others:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_Windows
Okay, I was hoping this could pave the way to more tiling window managers on Windows, but it doesn't seem to be the case.