## Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Administrator's Companion by Sharon Crawford & Charlie Russel copyright (c) 2000 by Microsoft Corporation all rights reserved

Home Articles Utilities Software Electronic Book |  | Command Prompt as Primary Interface If you would love to be able to administer an NT box completely from the command line, perform the following: Modify the following registry value: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon:Shell=explorer.exe Change explorer.exe to cmd.exe Now you have a command prompt as your primary interface. If you want the normal shell back, run explorer from the command line or set the registry key value back to explorer.exe. All normal applications will run from the command line, you just have to know what the executable is.