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Skulltrail192 / One-Core-Api-Source

A complete layer to get compatibility on XP/2003 for newer applications
http://shorthornproject.com
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Windows xp explorer.exe #29

Open ListLostLisp opened 5 years ago

ListLostLisp commented 5 years ago

I don't know any better place to ask you about this so sorry. The windows xp and windows 2000 explorer.exe's are very nostalgic to me and is the main reason i love one core api. But seeing as it's still not compatible with most newer programs and not even my computer right now, it is not viable for me.

What I would LOVE and what I think many others would too, is a modification to windows 2000 or xp's explorer exe so it would work natively on windows 7 and/or 10. There are classic themes and hacks but none have the file explorer and are very buggy, a direct port so I can have the classic feel would be a dream come true.

mittorn commented 2 years ago

try reactos explorer, but all of this will be very unuseful on recent windows versions because of lack of legacy settings

RandomPSPguy commented 2 years ago

I'm also very interested in this. If anyone can give some hints as to how to do it with XP's source code it'd help me out.

I'm thinking you could be able to forward all new functions and ordinals to a 2008 server core dll and it'd work but idk. I've tested forwarding xp's shell32 and some otherdll's on windows 10 but right clicking or basically anything with a dialog menu crashed it so I don't know. Maybe I needed to forward more functions? I think I missplaced ordinals.