yeah explorer.exe is only shell, and you can change the shell with other alternate shell like litestep,aston,talisman,geoshell,sharp-e,serenade,etc.

but for windows it self, it's not a shell or advance dos wrapper or dos extender, it's a solid operating system (some people might be said 1/2 descent, but this true win9x is a solid os). and if it isn't, what should os must have to be a "real os"? just for example, take a look linux, bash is only shell and what does KDE or GNOME? it's shell too.

and if i had mistaken, please tell me what the first "real" os available on earth?

Edited March 22, 200620 yr by Dels

Nevermind

Edited March 23, 200620 yr by PROBLEMCHYLD

Link21 was being negative again by saying that Windows 9x is just a DOS extender!

Like it's Windows 3.1 or something.

Windows 98 SE probably was one of the best operating systems based on Windows 95!

You're both right, techinally Win95/98 is just a really fancy program that runs on top of DOS. But it is a great OS if you install the USB support and uSP1. The XP vs 98SE chatter is mindless, it's been posted a hundred times on here.

I prefer a well tuned XP box but if my hardware was weaker, I'd be satisfied with 98SE /w uSP2.

Of course keep in mind guys that eventually as new hardware comes out, you won't have compatible drivers that will work in 98.

Edited March 31, 200620 yr by travisowens