WinUAE

[MozzerFan]

Lonewolf10 wrote:

Yeah, it's probably best to leave Explorer running, that way you can access the following whilst in WinUAE:

CD/DVD drive
USB Memory sticks (just discovered that this week)
Any attached printers

I'm running WinUAE as a replacement for explorer.exe myself and have absolutely no problem accessing my CD drive, usb-sticks etc. If you do have problems accessing these when replacing explorer, there must be something wrong with your config files.
EDIT: explorer.exe is nothing more than a graphical user interface. You can compare it with loadwb on the amiga.
The drivers for cd/dvd drives, usb etc. are NOT loaded through explorer.exe. You can replace it by any program you like.

Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

adolescent wrote:
I'd suggest not replacing the shell, just run it as a startup item with a customised WinUAE config.  This way, you still have Explorer if you need to exit WinUAE (for upgrades, file operations, etc.)  

When you replace explorer.exe and you exit winuae, you can still start explorer.exe by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL and starting explorer.exe manually.

Regards,
Lloyd