window xp shells in pb?

[Dreglor]

i was watching "the screen savers" one day and they had a thing on altrenitve shells for windows.
what they do is replace windows default "explorer.exe" with there own program, intresting yes, hard ?
i was wonder could you do somthing like this in pb?
you would proably need your xp cd at had just in case

and for any one that doesn't know what exactly explorer.exe or a shell does go into task manger and close it and see what happens then use the task manger to restart it

[hm]

i was wonder could you do somthing like this in pb?

this could probably be done in purebasic. there are many explorer shell replacements that are open source. i remember installshield having some problems with the alternative shells until a litestep plugin was released to solve these problems.

there is some general plugin interface being developed for shell replacements, i think it would be nice to support it in a purebasic shell replacement. and of course litestep plugin support would be a must have.

most existing alternative shells are configured using text files rather than graphical config dialogs.

[thefool]

yeah litestep is a great replacement. But i think programming a shell replacement need a great amount of api-commands to skin the windows and get diskspace and the shortcuts and all that. but a simple one shouldnt be very very
hard