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by Kwpolska 1544 days ago
Explorer isn’t the window manager. And does it really matter it’s serving as the shell? What technical benefits would a split bring?
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number6 1544 days ago
Right, they changed that 15 years ago.

Splitting would make them more interchangeable and stable - crashing one part does not tears the whole stack down.

What is the benefit of putting all the different functionality in one application?

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awilfox 1544 days ago
Explorer was never the WM; you could kill explorer.exe off in both 9x and NT systems without affecting window management.

I don't remember how it worked in 9x, but NT used CSRSS.EXE for window management until NT 4 moved GDI into the kernel. DWM handles it in Vista and newer.

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