[1vuio0pswjnm7]

"It would be like Microsoft saying "explorer.exe? Policy A only covers the OS, and that is clearly not part of Windows! - so therefore you are covered by Policy B."

This made me remember a long time ago when I ran Windows I used to disable explorer.exe by editing a certain registry key.

Not sure if this still works today, but it did back then. This reduced distraction as only one window could be maxmized at a time. Also made the OS feel more stable and snappier. In any event it was one less memory-consuming process running.

[drooopy]

I remember that back in the windows 95 days i used the same trick to load progman.exe instead of explorer.exe during boot.

I was too used to the Windows 3.1 desktop environment...

[1vuio0pswjnm7]

IIRC, I think I used taskmgr.exe as a substitute program launcher instead of explorer.exe's "Start" button and menu. I, too, was originally a Windows 3.11 for Workgroups user.