Saturn
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Posts: 142
OS: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2
Theme: Luna, Royale Noir by Microsoft Corporation
CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 @ 3.20GHz
RAM: 2x4GB 1600MHz DDR3
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Computer Make/Model: To be filled by O.E.M.
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Post by Saturn on Jul 9, 2024 8:58:41 GMT -8
Here's a thread I wanted to make a few months ago, but forgot about it later on. This is easy to do, just grab explorer.exe and its MUI from build 6936. From what I know, build 6936 is pretty similar to build 7000 but without Bluepill features, meaning you don't get the Superbar (the new taskbar in Windows 7) by default. As you can see, it looks pretty bad with the default 7 msstyle. I remember trying to put in some classes from the default Vista msstyles to improve the look and it made it look a bit like Vista, but the taskbar buttons were still looking like garbage. Maybe someone can do it?
The default start menu does not work, but you can use Classic or Open Shell to get a functional start menu. I also tested this with Windows Vista compatibility mode and the only thing I noticed that it did was break Open Shell hooking into the start button (you could still access the start menu by pressing the Windows key). 7+TT does not work, says that it can't find taskbar for some reason, besides that I'm sure there aren't any debug symbols for 6936. So I guess even if we get msstyles classes to work we would have to deal with the tray.
Also, here's how it looks with the classic theme (and also the 7+TT error): |
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Saturn
Sophomore Member
Posts: 142
OS: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2
Theme: Luna, Royale Noir by Microsoft Corporation
CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 @ 3.20GHz
RAM: 2x4GB 1600MHz DDR3
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Computer Make/Model: To be filled by O.E.M.
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Post by Saturn on Jul 9, 2024 9:07:29 GMT -8
 While I'm at it, you can also get Vista x86 explorer to work. Set it to Vista compatibility mode or you will get an error. It's even worse because it's x86 and it will always insist on launching x86 versions of programs whenever possible.
For example you can have x64 task manager open, then close it, start it from the right click menu and you will get x86 task manager: (look at *32 in taskmgr.exe) And you can't open the start menu at all even with Open Shell. I believe this is because Open Shell is x64 only.
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Post by nonameneeded on Jul 11, 2024 20:59:54 GMT -8
Ok.
But why would anyone want to do that?
Using a beta version of Win7's explorer.exe?
I don't see any benefits, only problems.
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Post by Brawllux on Jul 11, 2024 23:55:17 GMT -8
Ok. But why would anyone want to do that? Using a beta version of Win7's explorer.exe? I don't see any benefits, only problems. Getting classic start menu natively,and an interesting experiment. |
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arbestriagain
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OS: Windows 11 Home 23H2
Theme: Default
CPU: Intel Core i7-10700F
RAM: 32GB
GPU: GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
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Post by arbestriagain on Jul 12, 2024 5:17:37 GMT -8
Ok. But why would anyone want to do that? Using a beta version of Win7's explorer.exe? I don't see any benefits, only problems. Getting classic start menu natively,and an interesting experiment. It could just be Classic/Open Shell. |
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Post by Brawllux on Jul 12, 2024 15:05:28 GMT -8
Getting classic start menu natively,and an interesting experiment. It could just be Classic/Open Shell. |
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Post by nonameneeded on Jul 12, 2024 17:11:43 GMT -8
It could just be Classic/Open Shell. But according to Saturn it doesn't even work.
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Post by Brawllux on Jul 12, 2024 23:34:49 GMT -8
But according to Saturn it doesn't even work.
Because he didn't say "classic shell" i thought he meant classic theme. Attachments:
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