No Explorer.exe desired for logon

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How best does one get a user logon without explorer.exe starting? I am
currently trying to build a configuration without winlogon and using minlogon
with no shells.
 
John,

No shell? It is possible (you will just have to ignore some TD build system
errors, though) but what would be the purpose of such image?
I can see a value there only you write you own kernel based app or new
client/server runtime.

If you don't want Explorer to start up automatically, switch to another
Shell component in your configuration.

KM
 
John,

No shell? It is possible (you will just have to ignore some TD build system
errors, though) but what would be the purpose of such image?
I can see a value there only you write you own kernel based app or new
client/server runtime.

If you don't want Explorer to start up automatically, switch to another
Shell component in your configuration.

KM
 
John,

What problems you faced switching to Minlogon? If you give us more details,
we may be able to help you with that move.

I must admit I don't understand what you mean by "no shells". Are you trying
to implement your own custom shell in the image?

KM
 
I don't want explorer to start for 2 reasons: 1) it saves a bit of memory and
our application is memory intensive, 2) if explorer is there the top of the
hidden taskbar is visible at the bottom of our full screen 3-d application.
There is no need for explorer as there is no direct user interaction with the
system, no keyboard and mouse. If there is any user interaction it is by a
technician for maintenance from a remote console via VNC.
 
John,

Understood.

Well.. Since you are talking about VNC (not RDP) then you definitely want to
look at Minlogon.
Let us know what exactly problems you faced there and then we can talk about
things that may be done.

Btw, either start your Minlogon image from scratch or turn off Auto-Resolve
dependencies in TD.

KM
 
For now I have replaced the explorer.exe in
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\Shell with an
application that must always run at startup. I will explore a new image with
minlogon soon.
 
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