Replacing Windows Shell

hi, i'm looking for a method to replacing the entire Windows 10 Shell. I
need to remove/hide complete the taskbar, start menu and desktop. Any
ideas how i can solve this?

"bluecon" wrote

| hi, i'm looking for a method to replacing the entire Windows 10 Shell. I
| need to remove/hide complete the taskbar, start menu and desktop. Any
| ideas how i can solve this?

It wouldn't be a method. What you want is a
replacement shell. The shell is basically the GUI.
The desktop is just an Explorer folder with a
unique display. The whole system includes
Explorer/IE as well as shell extensions like
property pages, explorer bars, etc. If you disable
that you're back to DOS-esque UI. So you'd need
to replace it.

On 7-12-2018 16:18, bluecon wrote:
hi, i'm looking for a method to replacing the entire Windows 10 Shell. I
need to remove/hide complete the taskbar, start menu and desktop. Any
ideas how i can solve this?

Switch to dos or dosbox fullscreen window.......

I know... But a stupid question deserves a stupid answer.

On 07/12/2018 15:18, bluecon wrote:
Any
ideas how i can solve this?

Sure I have an idea. Hire a technician to solve it for you. Make sure
he/she is an Indian educated working in the States or Europe.





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bluecon wrote:

hi, i'm looking for a method to replacing the entire Windows 10 Shell. I
need to remove/hide complete the taskbar, start menu and desktop. Any
ideas how i can solve this?

You've mentioned what you want to move away from. You have not
specified what you want to move to. From your vague implication, you
want to completely remove the desktop which means you end up with a
screen that bars any functionality; i.e., you end up with a blank screen
where you cannot do anything, so the OS load would be fruitless.
Without a desktop manager, there would be no desktop shortcuts, no
menuing system to get at other shortcuts, no right-click context menu.
You would have no user interface (UI) to the OS.

Are you trying to figure out how to prank someone else by emulating a
black screen on boot? That would be malicious behavior for which you
should receive no help from here.

Are you trying to lockdown the OS because the computer is shared with
other users? If so, why don't those other users have their own Windows
accounts? If you want to lockdown a user to a specific app when they
login, use Assigned Access (available since Windows 8) to restrict them
to a single app; see:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-s...ess-windows-10
"With Assigned access, users won't be able to get to the desktop, Start
menu, or any other app, including the Settings app."
Seems close to what you requested, since obviously the point of loading
Windows and logging in is to do something with the computer.

You could research some kiosk software to lockdown the OS. Or use
restore-state-upon-reboot software. Both Returnil System Safe and
Microsoft SteadyState have long been discontinued but there are other
choices, like Faronics DeepFreeze, Toolwiz Time Freeze, Shadow Defender,
Horizon DataSys' Reboot Restore Rx or their Rollback Rx, and more.
Obviously another choice is to save a base OS in an image backup and use
it to restore the drive back to the base state.

You told use from where you want to leave. You did not tell us your
destination. Can't give focused advice on where to go when you don't
say. Your description would render the OS unusable.

On 12/07/2018 9:18 AM, bluecon wrote:
hi, i'm looking for a method to replacing the entire Windows 10 Shell. I
need to remove/hide complete the taskbar, start menu and desktop. Any
ideas how i can solve this?



Just delete windows and format the drive!

Rene Lamontagne wrote:

bluecon wrote:

hi, i'm looking for a method to replacing the entire Windows 10 Shell. I
need to remove/hide complete the taskbar, start menu and desktop. Any
ideas how i can solve this?

Just delete windows and format the drive!

Actually I was thinking the OP might want something like the Recovery
Console on boot which only gives a command shell. However, I don't know
how to make it the default choice on boot but then I haven't bothered to
research how to do that. Maybe bcdedit.exe could be used to change the
default load image on boot. The OP would then have no desktop, so no UI
to the OS, and end up having to use commands to do everything, just like
back in the old IBM/MS-DOS days of yore.

On 07/12/2018 15:18, bluecon wrote:
hi, i'm looking for a method to replacing the entire Windows 10 Shell. I
need to remove/hide complete the taskbar, start menu and desktop. Any
ideas how i can solve this?

No idea what he would do with it but the OP can achieve what he wants
with standard Windows.

All he needs to do is boot into troubleshooting mode and select the
command prompt option. He will then have a working computer without any
of the artifacts of a GUI.

On 07/12/2018 19:12, MikeS wrote:
On 07/12/2018 15:18, bluecon wrote:
hi, i'm looking for a method to replacing the entire Windows 10 Shell. I
need to remove/hide complete the taskbar, start menu and desktop. Any
ideas how i can solve this?

No idea what he would do with it but the OP can achieve what he wants
with standard Windows.

All he needs to do is boot into troubleshooting mode and select the
command prompt option. He will then have a working computer without any
of the artifacts of a GUI.


VanguardLH got there while I was typing the above!

bluecon wrote:
hi, i'm looking for a method to replacing the entire Windows 10 Shell. I
need to remove/hide complete the taskbar, start menu and desktop. Any
ideas how i can solve this?

You mean like Kiosk Mode ?

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/windo...ssigned-access

That's the only technical term I know to
use in a Google Search. No idea how "brickified"
it makes the machine though - like when you want
to do maintenance on the machine with an
elevated account.

Paul

On 12/7/2018 7:18 AM, bluecon wrote:
hi, i'm looking for a method to replacing the entire Windows 10 Shell. I
need to remove/hide complete the taskbar, start menu and desktop. Any
ideas how i can solve this?

Perhaps these doc from MS might get you where you need to be:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...osk-single-app
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win.../kiosk-methods