Windows XP shell replacement

Today, while browsing the interwebs I found out you can change the Windows default shell. However, I'm obviously not searching well enough and I am not sure what would be a good one for Windows XP? Any suggestions?

Which Shell are you referring to Explorer or CommandLine?

Well you do have the option of using PowerShell and PowerShell ISE which is a bit more useful over the standard CMD interface and support scripting.

On the Windows side of things you can initiate the old Windows 3.x Program Manager rather than the default Windows Explorer, but it will limit functionality a lot.

There's also Cygwin and MinSYS if you use a GNU environment (which defaults to the Bash Shell and/or X11 in most cases), but they are not really useful for the main system and only wrap back to the default CommandLine Shell or Windows Explorer.

Pretty much that's it for both of them.

http://www.shellcity.net/

Welcome to the awesome world of WinXP.

By the way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_shell_replacement

Which Shell are you referring to Explorer or CommandLine?

Well you do have the option of using PowerShell and PowerShell ISE which is a bit more useful over the standard CMD interface and support scripting.

On the Windows side of things you can initiate the old Windows 3.x Program Manager rather than the default Windows Explorer, but it will limit functionality a lot.

There's also Cygwin and MinSYS if you use a GNU environment (which defaults to the Bash Shell and/or X11 in most cases), but they are not really useful for the main system and only wrap back to the default CommandLine Shell or Windows Explorer.

Pretty much that's it for both of them.

Just a explorer.exe replacement. I don't really use CMD enough for it to really matter to me.

http://www.shellcity.net/

Welcome to the awesome world of WinXP.

By the way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_shell_replacement

Have any suggestions?

SharpE: http://www.sharpe-shell.org/