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Old May 13th 18, 11:28 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Mayayana
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Default Windows Explorer, XP edition

"Ken Springer" wrote

| Does anyone know if it's possible to get XP's version of Windows
| Explorer to run under Windows 8?
|

I doubt it, but I'd be interested to hear the results of
your attempt.

IE and Explorer are still tied together. A number of DLLs
used by Explorer are part of IE install. For example,
browseui.dll, wininet.dll, shdocvw.dll, shlwapi.dll.
Shell extensions are also shared. An Explorer Bar is
installed to both Explorer and IE. It's not as much of
a tie-in as it was pre-XP, but they're still tied together.
So the question would be how does XP Explorer react
to being dumped into a different set of DLLs, from a
version of IE that's not supported on XP.


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