Question about InstantSheller

[skidrash]

First off, I'm not sure if this is the right board to post in, so I'm sorry if it's not...

I have my Media Center set up to allow concurrent connections, and I load GameEx as a plugin for my emulator frontend. I would like to use Instant Sheller to load my Media Center (which I can do just fine) when I log in as one user, but I want explorer.exe to be my shell when I log in as a different user. This would really help facilitate my updates, etc. when using remote desktop.

I've tried Instant Sheller under these pretenses, but I end up loading MCE as my shell regardless of who I log in as, either directly or through Remote Desktop. Any suggestions?

~skidrash

[fattmarrell]

you can do this but you must allocate each user the specific shell you want them to use via registry key. So for your situation you could make an UpdateAdmin account that will start in explorer.exe shell, nothing else, EVER!

looksie:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....ferentUsers.asp

[skidrash]

Alright I tried to get the whole shell thing working and finally just gave up. I figure, when I log in as administrator I can always just kill the media center shell and run explorer via taskmanager.

So, now I have a new question.... When I the Windows Media Center executable as my shell and reboot, everything comes up as expected, except the media center doesn't have focus. It looks like it does, but if you press a button on the keyboard nothing happens. You have to like the mouse on screen (to give the media center app focus) before the keyboard inputs work. So why isn't the media center "shell" gaining focus automatically on bootup? Any suggestions?

~skidrash