Originally posted here by Zelfaldor
What I was asking about was answerd by jounry and cgkanchi I had thought it would be in the regestry but I just learned something new, thanx to everyone who helped.

Zelfaldor
In Win 9x the shell was stored in the system.ini
but in NT/2k/XP things changed and the shell setting has been relocated to your registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell

Maybe thats what he was refering to