>Hi Dragan,
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>>Some other win+key combinations give you somewhat different responses now, and AFAIK that's configurable too.
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>It seems you already have it installed as the shell. I kinda liked the util, and the size was surprising 298KB uncompressed!! In fact compare the size of IE and FireFox, ditto. By the way do you use FF?

What else? IE is too dangerous, and I'm an old Netscape diehard. I somehow survived the bad years of NS and jumped into Mozilla as soon as I heard about it. Tried Opera a few times (not on my machine) and it was cute, just not reason enough to switch from the version of Mozilla I was using then.

>Another suggestion is to use StartRight (http://www.joejoesoft.com/sr.php) takes out a lot of CPU startup load. I have a lot of apps that are supposed to start, though now it takes longer to load but the harddisk is less thrashed.

I rebooted at least once a week because a few things would become too slow, or it would have these periods of paralysis, where it would cease all other activity and just meditate for a minute or two (ok maybe 20 seconds, but seemed as long), or would repaint the whole desktop for no obvious reason, drawing each icon from scratch. Eventually I'd notice some signs of, well, nearly malfunction. Then I'd reboot. The reboot went quick enough, but after it showed me the desktop, it wasn't finished - it took about three minutes more when explorer.exe would be quite busy (CPU at 70% or more at times) and that's AFTER all my startup apps load (not much - Thunderbird, Trillian, FooBar, TC, SqlMgr, Launchy - yep, one of them IS M$ :).

We'll see - maybe I won't have to reboot weekly anymore. This thing somehow moves windows around a tad more smoothly and swiftly than explorer did. I'm getting an impression my machine is a bit faster. May be just an impression. Even so, a good one.

>I have somehow over the years cultivated a habit to look for MS alternatives (and have a long list of them and I can send you the links if you will), if we can't live without Windows and VFP that does not mean we can't replace everything else that MS provides with something more efficient. Though I must say I never had the guts to replace the shell and this one looks promising. One thing that concerns me is the lack to releases this last year, does it worry you on that point? Your OS is XP? Mine is W2K.

Xp sp1. I somehow always try to use the latest obsolete one that's sure to work :).

My only concern is that I may change my environment too much and become incompatible with the users' environment to the point where things may work here and not there, and the difference be caused by environment. So far so good, everything works like it used to (knock on wood), or better.