Hello everyone. I have a question about teh exlporer.exe process. I am creating a custom system for myself which will use a visual basic application upon startup of the system. When a usual Windows 95+ system starts up, the epxlorer.exe loads up? I read somewhere that the explrer.exe process is the basic visual shell of windows or something?!!? I tried closing explorer.exe in the task manager of win 2000 and it removed everything except for the background wallpaper. Here is what I am thinking of. I would like the system to satrtup, load windows, not load any of these start buttons and all taht, and just load a visual basic program that I put in the startup registry or something. How can I remove explrer.exe from starting up?