This time when Gates put a bug he didn't know about in Windows, it helped. A part of Windows NT registry called Image File Execution Options, with a command called Debugger, allows one to disable any program and replace it with another. Windows Task Manager can be replaced with Sysinternals Process Explorer, availible
here, by using such a command. A key in Image File Execution options > located in Hkey_local_machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion, named Taskmgr.exe can do the trick. Make a string called "Debugger" in the key and target it at Process Explorer's Main Executible file. e.g. C:\p\a\t\h\mainexecutiblefile.exe. The same is done with IE, only disabling IE requires an extra step. Web browsers have download programs built in. Since the option is Debugger, if targeted directly at Firefox, every time IE would try to start, Firefox would try to download iexplore.exe. The use of the shell program is the actual tartget. The shell program, a small file that has one purpose- start Firefox, actually starts when IE is launched. The shell program simply starts Firefox from C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe as any batch file would. Webpete had a webpage that had a download availible, and instructions for doing this, however that post disappeared. My computer, still containing the original shell program, was able to make it through, until the day when I released Startfox 5. The setup programs were created with Inno Setup. And the menu in Startfox 5 was created with a shareware version of SamLogic CD-Menu Creator 2004. Upon the release of Startfox 9, the menu has been changed to an Open-Source application called "CuteStarter." This has more compliance with the GNU General Public License, as Startfox now uses.