I'm using object dock to display my running tasks and my Systray. I also hide my explorer taskbar, and am using Iconx to generate my desktop. Is there any way to have one of these applications run as my default shell? Will either of them process the startup folders & registry locations if setup in this manner? My other thought would be to run a minimal litestep install just to get things running. 30Mb of ram for explorer to sit there hidden seems wastefull.