Restarting windows shell

How to close windows shell, and then start it again, but without restarting windows ?

ending the explorer program (Win9x) / process (WinNT), and starting it again

I have seen a sample where explorer.exe was replaced by an other program (written in vb). That's done by hacking in system.ini. That shell was pretty cool.

However, when VB ended the program with a runtime error, the shell disappeared, and never showed up again. Otherwise, I would already use that program instead of the explorer.exe shell

How would you solve that?

Use this sample code, and feed it the EWX_LOGOFF constant instead of the EWX_REBOOT constant

VB Code:

'In general section
Const EWX_LOGOFF = 0
Const EWX_SHUTDOWN = 1
Const EWX_REBOOT = 2
Const EWX_FORCE = 4
Private Declare Function ExitWindowsEx Lib "user32" (ByVal uFlags As Long, ByVal dwReserved As Long) As Long
Private Sub Form_Load()
    'KPD-Team 1998
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    'E-Mail: [email][email protected][/email]
    msg = MsgBox("This program is going to reboot your computer. Press OK to continue or Cancel to stop.", vbCritical + vbOKCancel + 256, App.Title)
    If msg = vbCancel Then End
    'reboot the computer
    ret& = ExitWindowsEx(EWX_FORCE Or EWX_REBOOT, 0)
End Sub

How to end explorer.exe ?

What do you mean by "end explorer.exe"?

Shut the machine off?
Warm boot?

end windows shell. I placed my own shell which calls explorer.exe, then my app minimizes to tray. I want to add log off action to my shell, which closes all programs, including explorer.exe. Thats all