On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 16:40:35, Mayayana
wrote (my responses usually follow points raised):
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

| Don't know what "in-process" means, but Turnpike is (I think) indeed a
| shell extension. It worked right up to the last pre-release version of
| 7-64 - which still contained whatever was needed, and switched to it
| when required - but under the first official release (and all since), it
| doesn't.
|

In-process means that a library is loaded into the
same process, which means shared memory addresses.
It's sort of like talking to someone in your house vs
someone next door. The conversation is in the context
of your own house.

Like the old paged, extended, expanded, and so on memory in DOS days.

A sheel extension is a component that provides functionality
in Explorer, like an Explorer Bar or Property Page. If the

Well, Turnpike makes a (pseudo?) folder appear on the desktop called
Turnpike, below which - when looked at in explorer - has apparent
folders called Newsgroups and Mail - with folders for newsgroups; in
other words, posts and emails look as if they're files in folders. (Not
identical - some different symbols.)

Turnpike software worked at first on Win64 then the problem
probably has nothing to do with 32/64.

Those who know a lot more than I say that up until, but not including,
the final release of 7-64, the 64-bit OS included a 32-bit shell (I
think shell was the word), which was "switched in" (?) when software
needed it.


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