XP And Vista explorer.exe question

[FrozenBlade]

I have XP Pro and Vista Home Premium, would I be able to replace the Windows XP explorer.exe with Windows Vista's?

By placing Vista's explorer.exe into an explorer.ex_ then putting it into the windows XP source.

Would XP be able to start normally?

Edited April 11, 2007 by FrozenBlade

[gunsmokingman]

I have XP Pro and Vista Home Premium, would I be able to replace the Windows XP explorer.exe with Windows Vista's?

By placing Vista's explorer.exe into an explorer.ex_ then putting it into the windows XP source.

Would XP be able to start normally?

Simple no it will not work. Vista is completely different then XP.

[FrozenBlade]

I have been working with the 2 explorer.exe's with ResHacker and they both look very similair inside.

[gunsmokingman]

I have been working with the 2 explorer.exe's with ResHacker and they both look very similair inside.

They are not even close, they are different.

[cluberti]

I actually tried it in a VM just to see what would happen - explorer.exe on XP crashed right out of the gate, and even after getting it to run, it called exports in dll files on XP that did not exist (but do in vista versions of these .dlls). You'd have to replace the entire GUI (and you'd also have to be running IE7) to even have a chance of this working properly, would be my guess.

[FrozenBlade]

Ah, well thanks for the heads up, I will play about and see what happens, I already have IE7, Vista Icons and some Vista system files in my XP after adapting them, if I can get the Vista explorer working without editing it too much I should be able to achieve Aero in XP.

[cluberti]

Since Aero is done in the dwm process, not the explorer.exe process, I think you may be on the wrong track.

[FrozenBlade]

So looks like I have been trying to achieve the impossible?

Is WindowsBlinds the only real option to get an aero theme for Windows XP?

Edited April 13, 2007 by FrozenBlade

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Yes.