Recently I learned how to change the default shell that Windowz uses. For those who dont already know, the default shell that windows uses is explorer.exe

The shell from what I understand is a combination of a windows and file manager. Anyway I just tryed out a few shells and I am very happy with the free shell OpenVision found at

http://207.134.67.174/OpenVision/index.html

I also tryed litestep at www.litestep.com and one called blackbox. Although OpenVision takes a bit more work to set up since it uses tcl, it has a very pleasing interface, very customizeable and easy to use. It loads some barf objects when it starts, but you can simply right click them click unload, and click dont start the object at astartup and it will leave you alone. Compared to all the other shells I have tryed, this one is the fastest, prittyest, and most easy to use in my opinion anyway. For those who are interested in giveing windows a new look I highly recomend you visit

http://207.134.67.174/OpenVision/index.html

For a list of other wounderfull shells go to:

http://shellcity.net/