That's good to hear. I'm not really trying to 'rain on your parade', just warning that there is no panacea to this situation but by real solutions - none forthcoming from either M$ or CL. Explorer.exe is not a 'service'. It IS Windows, for the most part. Explorer is the GUI and shell of Windows. This is why when you kill Explorer.exe, Windows either 'resets' or crashes. And there are ways to change it, say for instance, to a 3.1 interface by using a different GUI (the ole' file manager - don't know where they hid it in XP). That would explain why it's such a hog - it manages all of the informational and visual resources you get in Windows. I use DirectoryOpus which is a port of an amazing Amiga file manager. It replaces Explorer (the app) for file management, but not even it can replace explorer.exe unless it becomes a full Windows management system. It is not.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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