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Themes got disabled, as did most cruft. Memory usage looks like this now:

SVCHOST.EXE	9,008K
SVCHOST.EXE	1,492K
LSASS.EXE	928K
SERVICES.EXE	1,860K
WINLOGON.EXE	568K
CSRSS.EXE	2,540K
SMSS.EXE	32K
System	36K

Obviously, this excludes the 'volatile' and transient stuff (explorer.exe, taskmgr.exe), or 'ignorable' stuff (System Idle Process) for hopefully-obvious reasons.

Still, a total memory usage of 16,464K is pretty good for WinXP. :-)

I do SO dearly wish someone would write a stripped-down shell replacement though. No new features, no skins, no themes, no bullshit, just a stripped-down shell. I mean... really, is 20MB needed for the SHELL?!? That's more than the remainder of the system is using at the moment. =^.^=

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From:

aerowolf.livejournal.com

Someone did. His name is Khaled Mardam-Bey, and it's called mIRC.

You can, quite literally, use mIRC as your shell and run EVERYTHING from it. It has hooks to run EXEs and DLLs, as well as hosting OLE and passing data via DDE. And it's SCRIPTABLE. Oh my god is it scriptable.

Did I mention you can do /everything/? And that means /anything/? :)

From:

wolfwings.livejournal.com

...has anyone written a replacement shell that has the same basic features (start menu, desktop, quick-launch bar, system tray) that doesn't take up 20MB of Visual-Basic DLL's? :-)

In this case, much like emacs not being a valid 'replacement' because it involves re-learning too much for the other users of the machine, mIRC wouldn't be valid either.

That, and much like Internet Explorer, I wouldn't trust mIRC any further than I could delete it. =^.6= That probably comes from seeing all the mIRC-specific attacks on various IRC networks, especially DalNet.