Making a O.S in PB is almost impossible but making a shell for the O.S is not. Someday I want to try and make a shell in PB.
I personaly think that windows itself is actualy stable when you dont use the shell (explorer), if you use a different one it, you can normaly take less memory and crash alot less, if at all.
You can look this up on google. But the shell is what it sounds. I sorta wraps around the O.S. It is basicly what you see, the GUI and maybe a few things more. Windows comes with a shell called "Explorer". Explorer mainly consists of the task bar, the desktop, the desktop icons (the ability to have icons on the desktop), and the start menu (on the task bar). It does a few things else but I cant think of them right now.
There are many shell replacements. Some of the more popular would be BB4Win (black box shell), LiteStep, and others. Each shell is different, some can cause problems (so you probably want a shell switching application, they are free. If you are thinking about replacing the windows shell you will probably want to read up on the shell you are wanting to use and on how to change shells manualy incase the shell switcher fails (normaly it does not, but you can never be too careful).
Unless you really fall in love with the shell, you probably will not like it unless you enjoy tweaking things. Cause most of them are not perfect and should not be used by people who just want a different shell and not have to mess with it. They also can crash but just like when Explorer crashes, you can easily fix it by logging out and logging back in or rebooting the computer.
But if you looking for a different experience when using your computer and have lots of time on your hands. I would say go for it if you want to try out some shells. Personaly Litestep always never worked for me (I must have been doing something wrong, since it is the most popular shell), the other one I tried was BB4Win and the modified version of it: BBLean. I was fun to use and BBLean is really easy to modify. Litestep probably has far more things to change with it, but I like simplicity. Just remember when using them if you not having fun, dont mess with it just use Explorer.
I suppose that writing an OS in PB could, just be possible. It may sound mad but so long as you don't use anything that is even closley related to any OSes API and you know a lot of ASM then perhaps.....
IF it is possible then it'd be damned hard to pull off...
~I see one problem with your reasoning: the fact is thats not a chicken~
So, what you meant in your first post is that you can only change the OS's look and other small things, but not itself, right?
I personally am VERY happy with explorer. Those lovely blue screens, programs crashing all the time...
But I wouldn't risk getting something even worse.
Thanks for the explanation Truth_Seeker!
~Fou-Lu (aka Lørd Cinneris (actually Elias Sant'Ana))
No you cant actualy change the O.S yourself (atleast I have no idea how to), it is true it could get worse but sometimes it can be better. But let me say this... if most of my applications could be used in linux or maybe even the mac (dont know about that yet). I would drop windows without even thinking about it. Maybe since the new version of windows that will be out in 2006 is going to break alot of things (atleast thats what it seems), it will be time to change.