Ambassador Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambassador Posted December 19, 2007 Author Share Posted December 19, 2007 Ok, since no one responded, I decided to try it myself.RESULT: It kinda works, but there are some problems.PIC 1PIC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awergh Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 it doesnt look too bad, did you use the nt4 explorer with web intergration (4.7ish) rather then the default 4.0? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambassador Posted December 20, 2007 Author Share Posted December 20, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weEvil Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Cool.Why do the icons look like crap though? Does it use its own icons to displays system drives, files... etc.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awergh Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambassador Posted December 24, 2007 Author Share Posted December 24, 2007 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 iconsOh, 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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