Using the NT4 Explorer as a "Windows Explorer" XP replacemen

[Ambassador]

Looking at all of the free Windows Explorer alternatives I have seen, none of them approach what I want: a clone of the Windows NT Explorer. Alternative likes UltraExplorer and xplorer2 lite have complicated interfaces. Even with all of that turned off, there is still webby features that I do not care for.

So is it possible to run the Windows NT 4.0 Explorer as a standalone app within the Windows XP Explorer?

Edited December 17, 2007 by Ambassador

[Ambassador]

Ok, since no one responded, I decided to try it myself.

RESULT: It kinda works, but there are some problems.

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[awergh]

it doesnt look too bad, did you use the nt4 explorer with web intergration (4.7ish) rather then the default 4.0?

[Ambassador]

Nope, this is the original, web-free NT4 explorer.

After all, having it with web intergration would kind of defeat the purpose, since the "webby" NT 4 Explorer is almost identical to XP's Explorer.

[weEvil]

Cool.

Why do the icons look like crap though? Does it use its own icons to displays system drives, files... etc.?

[awergh]

ithouht you might have been using the webby nt4 explorer because you still had quicklaunch,

it looks like you changed shell32.dll as well which has a lot of system icons

[Ambassador]

Cool.

Why do the icons look like crap though? Does it use its own icons to displays system drives, files... etc.?

Mostly it does. Some icons it uses are XP ones.

ithouht you might have been using the webby nt4 explorer because you still had quicklaunch,

it looks like you changed shell32.dll as well which has a lot of system icons

Oh, the reason I have quicklaunch is because I'm not actually using the NT4 explorer as a shell, but rather simply running it within the Windows XP explorer shell.

This is also why the icons are different. For the NT4 Explorer to run properly it need it's original shell32.dll (XP's one is imcompatible).