Idea: TotalCmd Desktop replacemet

[TucknDar]

Another excellent one is BBLean, free and open source, ultra lite, based on Blackbox for Windows.

http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/bblean/

Another great option, indeed!

[ArchCarrier]

OK, I'm new to replacement shells (and this forum BTW), but it sounds very exciting to have TotalCmd as my desktop. I'm downloading LiteSTep right now, but I can't find an option to install a program (like TotalCmd) as the desktop with Lite Step.

[icfu]

LiteStep replaces explorer.exe so what you see there as the desktop is your new LiteStep shell.

You cannot "install Total Commander as the desktop" because Total Commander has no shell replacement functions, that's the reason why I have recommended LiteStep actually.

If you want to use TC permanently just start it, maximize it and use it.

Icfu

[oblomov]

LiteStep replaces explorer.exe so what you see there as the desktop is your new LiteStep shell.

You cannot "install Total Commander as the desktop" because Total Commander has no shell replacement functions, that's the reason why I have recommended LiteStep actually.

If you want to use TC permanently just start it, maximize it and use it.

Icfu

In fact, quite some time ago (on a PC that had Win98) for a certain period of time I actually used TC as my shell instead of explorer. Did all I needed to do

[Sam_Zen]

I thought everybody here used TC permanently, so I'm surprised.
I never activate Exploder. The first thing after boot is starting TC, always maximized and it stays there until the end of the session. So actually TC can be called my 'desktop', a central point for access to files and (nearly) all applications.
So my Win-screen after boot is rather empty : the TC-button is one of five, 3 of them being MS.
Since I don't like these MS office-analogies like 'desktop', I refer to my TC as the 'workshop'.

[TucknDar]

I thought everybody here used TC permanently, so I'm surprised.
I never activate Exploder. The first thing after boot is starting TC, always maximized and it stays there until the end of the session.

We're talking about exploder the shell, not the file manager. Of course we don't fire up exploder file manager

[Sam_Zen]

Excuses here. This is due to my lack of knowledge about the concept of 'a shell', I suppose.

[rjz35]

i must say i used some different shells, litestep, blackbox, but form me as a lazy and not so competend computer freak, i now use emerge as a shell for about 3 months. so far, stable easy to use and not to fancy.

http://www.emergedesktop.org/

happy testing