Booting into different Windows shells

[soccerdvy]

Hey guys, I have been using Litestep for a while now, but I just recently discovered that the Windows Theme API has been "flushed" out. Now I can make my own themes, which makes Explorer look a lot more attractive than that old blue and green mess ;). Here is the problem though... I need to switch between Explorer and Litestep, most often from a coldboot, which means that I dont want to have to boot into Windows, and then switch my System.ini file up, and THEN restart my computer. I already have the Linux/Windows Grub menu, so it wouldn' be a problem for me to add a new boot menu after selecting that I want to use DOS. I just want to know HOW I would go about maybe setting a file to use in place of the system.ini file, sort of the way you can choose a replacement kernel. Is there any way to do that? or should I write my own program and put it in Autoexec? Thanks guys.

[kwhubby]

well one thing, If your using xp, you can swap the shell key for explorer.exe to whatever u want.. and u dont have to restard the computer u can simply just kill and restart the shell exe (default is explorer.exe) in the task list. You can also do a "log off" and re log in which saves some time then completely rebooting.

[soccerdvy]

thanks man!

[kwhubby]

your welcome!

just to note, (if you dont already know) the shell value for xp and 2k is located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

I have notice though if you change the shell value, some things with the task bar act wierd sometimes.