>> yes, you can set the shell to command.com or prime95, or
>> whatever. There is another way to interact with the
>> system, you can do this by pressing Ctrl+Esc to bring
>> up the tasks menu. From there, you can run any program
>> that you want to. This seems like it might increase
>> the system resources available to prime95.
>How? Why?
When I said "This seems..." I was referring to his idea in general,
sorry for the confusion
>Ctrl+Esc is just a "shortcut" to the "Windows" key
This is not true, when you bring up windows with the shell
explorer loaded, then it is a hotkey for the start bar.
When there is another shell loaded, Ctrl+Esc is a hotkey for
the "tasks" window. With this window, you can run any file using
file-run. I *have* actually tried this both at the computers at school,
as well as when I ran shell=command.com (independently of Mr. Leghorn.)
>I must say that, if anything, popping up the "Start" menu to
>run a program ought to cost _more_ system resources than
>simply starting it by double-clicking a desktop shortcut.
You are correct that bringing up the start menu is more of a drain on
resources. This doesn't actually have any (or at least very little)
affect on the performance of program, as both of these tasks have terminated
by the time the program has completed loading.
Cheers,
Lucas
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