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Windows Explorer is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems. It is also the component of the operating system that presents many user interface items on the monitor such as the taskbar and desktop. Controlling the computer is possible without Windows Explorer running (for example, the File | Run command in Task Manager on NT-derived versions of Windows will function without it, as will commands typed in a command prompt window). It is sometimes referred to as the Windows Shell, explorer.exe, or simply "Explorer".
The Windows Explorer was first included with Windows 95 as a replacement for the Windows 3.x File Manager. It could be accessed by double-clicking the new My Computer desktop icon, or launched from the new Start Menu that replaced the earlier Program Manager. There is also a shortcut key combination – Windows key + E. Successive versions of Windows (and in some cases, Internet Explorer) introduced new features and capabilities, removed other features, and generally progressed from being a simple file system navigation tool into a task-based file management system.
While "Windows Explorer" is a term most commonly used to describe the file management aspect of the operating system, the Explorer process also houses the operating system's search functionality and File Type associations (based on filename extensions), and is responsible for displaying the desktop icons, the Start Menu, the Taskbar, and the Control Panel. Collectively, these features are known as the Windows shell.
After a user logs in, the explorer process is created by userinit process. Userinit performs some initialization of the user environment (such as running the login script and applying group policies) and then looks in the registry at the Shell value and creates a process to run the system-defined shell - by default, Explorer.exe. Then Userinit exits. This is the reason why Explorer.exe is shown by various process explorers with no parent—its parent has exited.
--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Roy <linuxcanuck@...> wrote:
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> Earlier versions of Windows use Windows Explorer as the GUI. The file is
> explorer.exe. It is not to be confused with Internet Explorer. It is
> multi-duty, part file manager, window manager, etc. I am no expert on
> Windows, and I only know this because long before I quit using Windows, I
> experimented with replacing the GUI and a part of that was replacing
> explorer.exe with another desktop manager.
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> Nautilus works similarly in GNOME. If you don't believe me run it in XFCE or
> KDE and you get the GNOME desktop replacing the XFCE or KDE one. To get it
> to NOT do this you have to run it with a switch: nautilus --no-desktop. I
> learned this the hard way. :)
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> Roy
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> Using Kubuntu 11.04, 64-bit
> Location: Canada
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> On 17 April 2011 17:39, Rob <sun408b@...> wrote:
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> > Before windows vista and windows 7 started to use KDE Fedora interface ?
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