[ros-dev] Reactos booting to CLI

[WaxDragon]

2008/3/17 Filip Navara <xnavara at volny.cz>:
> We used to support that. The WinLogon was able to run in CUI mode, CSRSS and
> win32k started GUI mode only on demand (ie. if any GUI API was called).
> Basically all the components were designed in a way that if you specified
> cmd.exe as a shell then the GUI would never be started unless you try to
> execute an application which requires it. Quitting the application would
> switch back to the console mode. Not sure if and why it was removed...

I cannot tell you the exact reason why it was removed, but I do know
that /CONSOLE is the replacement for the true, blue-screened console
mode.  At least /CONSOLE still works.

I remember being specifically asked if it was OK to remove the
GUI-on-demand mode.

WD

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