Using XP's Explorer.exe in Win 7

[helpdesk98]

I did not think it was possiible, but explore.exe crashed in Win 7 and I poped open taskmanager & was going to relaunch it but I suddenly had an idea I launced the explorer.exe for XP on my secondary harddrive and it worked bugy but it worked! I am going to try Vistas next see if it works this may help users who want the classic explorer experence.

http://img37.imageshack.us/my.php?image=explore.png <<<picture

Edited June 6, 2009 by helpdesk98

[computerwizkid]

You can also use the one from ReactOS too.Also,like XP,it's buggy in 7 and Vista.When I tested it on Vista,it took forever to go into Windows Explorer and I didn't like it.So I switched back.

[ricktendo]

How does the all programs menu look?

Does it work?

[sebastian___]

Now that is amazing. If it would be stable it would be great. Awesome idea.

[vaska94]

Replacing of some DLL files may can help

to make it stable :-)

it looks awesome :D

[helpdesk98]

The Programs menu dose not work correctly & the recent programs dose not work. Quick Launch items appear in the right instead of the left. There are no notification Icons. I think if I modify a few values it will work better. Google Chrome has issues with XP's explorer on WIN 7. I just thought it was neat.

[zwaldowski]

I'd like to see it with Aero on... also, be very careful if you start pulling in XP's DLLs to make this work better. Stay far away from shell32 et. al.

[Mr Snrub]

It's not just DLL dependencies that could cause issues, but the user profile folder structure and handling of junction points, hard links, etc. is very different - then there may be deprecated APIs due to the absence of "classic mode".

(Those who have used roaming profiles from NT4, W2K and Vista days will likely be familiar with the changes to profile structures.)