What happens if you rename explorer.exe in different versions of Windows?

[@magnethome3778]

You didn't even speak in this video, just 33 minutes of music, so dislike.

[@aperdanlol]

Pin of shame tbh

[@쉬릿-0_o]

..😮

[@holy_macaroni]

then watch a video with commentary

[@temmieschannel]

prime example of "You can't please everyone"

[@Who1156]

This guy will now get flamed for having a opinion

[@matushorvath]

The reason you could not rename explorer.exe in Windows 95 MS-DOS mode is, the new file name "explorer1.exe" was more than 8 characters long. I just tried it in Windows 98, it does not allow renaming to explorer1.exe, but it renames to explore1.exe (8 characters) without problems. Long file names were a new thing back then and the command line utilities did not support them.

[@Grimlock1979]

Yup. Windows just ignores characters that appear after the first 8. So he was trying to rename explorer.exe to explorer.exe, hence the "duplicate filename" error message.

[@JimiReader]

Of course.

[@Timetraveler_1]

Is not that, it’s the prompt command/ms-dos that doesn’t allow much chatacters so you have to use ~n to indicate the file in that case the had to write explor~1.exe or the alphabetically number of the file because there were about 3 files called explorer… so in nuts he can name a file with more than 8 digits characters… infact the error was that the file were in use…

[@PurpleMonkVR4]

Skibity

[@nukedude24]

@@PurpleMonkVR4 get out of here with your Skibity jk at least your probably learning

[@fredomne]

When I was a kid, I did unintentionally renamed loads of executives in the Windows directory into my home language, not understanding too much English, thinking doing so would help locating them better next time. Unfortunately there were no next time, and Windows 98 refused to boot past its splash screen. The concept of shortcut/link wasn't a thing in my tiny head, nor did that of file extension since Microsoft hid them at default. It was a bit confusing since there were 2 "explorer", and only the scp file (Windows Explorer Commands file, whose extension remains hidden regardless of Folder options, just like a shortcut) can be renamed. Modifying this scp file won't affect anything as confirmed by the 20-year-later me in the present in a VM, so it could be something else that led to the confusion of both the OS and my parents. That old horizontal case PC was then sold and replaced with a used Windows XP machine from my cousin, plus a pirated Windows 98 "Third Edition" as main. As of how I recovered the XP to display in the correct resolution on the old-school CRT box, that would be another story of discovery.

[@JimiReader]

It happened to me too. But, be careful. Thank you for sharing your story. :)

[@HerecomestheCalavera]

Back in I think it was 1993 we got out first family computer and one of the games they got for me was "Mickey Mouse's Follow the Reader" The PC had Windows 3.1 and I put the shortcut for Follow the Reader into the startup folder. My brother who was somewhat decent with computers couldn't figure out how to get rid of it and actually had to call tech support. The solution? Just take the shortcut out of the Startup folder! Once they told him that he felt so stupid like omg how did I not realize that!

[@realcartoongirl]

nice story

[@OneAndOnlyZekePolaris]

SCP, the KZbin channel. Jk and all of this just shows more proof that Microsoft did not create Windows OS. Which has been proven by the guy that actually created it. He is the guy that sold the OS for 2 dollars, the real version 1.0.

[@drshtak]

that’s kinda sad

[@yarh79]

So this is my computer! -Sir, that's a notepad

[@Riiiileey]

😂

[@JimiReader]

Haha. xD

[@BestYoutuber893]

Yep a note pad to launch programs

[@HerecomestheCalavera]

Hi. This is my cat! *fish on string drops from ceiling and weird filter appears on video. AHHHHHHH! Lol I'm pretty sure nobody is going to get that reference

[@tuckster27]

I wonder if there is a practical benefit to doing this. Maybe less system memory usage.

[@sallai97]

at 2am **sighs** **plays the video**

[@SeekingAlpha2222]

I promised I was going to sleep early tonight 😂

[@KENINEK]

SAME (2:30 am now 🙃)

[@djhayman]

The reason you can't rename EXPLORER.EXE to EXPLORER1.EXE in MS-DOS mode because there's no long filename support. EXPLORER1 is 9 characters long so it gets truncated back to 8 characters, and the error is because you effectively entered REN EXPLORER.EXE EXPLORER.EXE with the same name twice. Try REN EXPLORER.EXE EXPLORE1.EXE Edit: Also the shell is controlled in SYSTEM.INI by SHELL=PROGMAN.EXE in Windows 3.x family or SHELL=EXPLORER.EXE for Windows 9x family, or in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell for Windows NT family. You can change them to point to any executable.

[@deepmc_]

True.

[@CutieFakeKirby]

dosen't it make it say EXPLOR~1?

[@seancdaug]

​@@CutieFakeKirby That's what happens when you rename the file in Windows (specifically, a Windows program with long file name support). Since DOS and older Windows programs can't handle long file names, the file system stores an alternate file name in the old 8.3 format that takes the first six characters (minus spaces and certain other special characters), a tilde, and a digit. So longfile1.ext becomes LONGFI~1.EXT. And that shorter name is what DOS sees. But, again, that only works if you rename the file in Windows, because Windows knows how to handle long file names and to create the duplicate short file name in the first place. If you try to do so in DOS, it will just fail the same way it would have in the pre-Windows 95 days because it was never designed to handle long file names or create the short alternate name.

[@vitoswat]

​@@seancdaugIIRC only staring with WinME you could use long filenames in command line.

[@Galaxy.Windows]

in Windows 95 to XP, the program manager and file manager still exist

[@lorenzomarchesi1471]

I kinda already knew that, but it's still kinda impressive how windows 10/11 is still really similar to windows vista under the hood

[@patrick05020]

I just thought it would boot windows repair and just fix it, turns out new tech can still be old school 😂

[@kickpaw]

All windows versions are just old ones, but with new added features and design. You can still see old resource monitor

[@TheRenegade...]

Windows Vista is NT 6.0 Windows 7 is NT 6.1 Windows 8 is NT 6.2 Windows 8.1 is NT 6.3 Windows 10 was going to be NT 6.4, but was changed to NT 10.0 to match the name, not because it's fundamentally different Windows 11 is still NT 10.0

[@bramweinreder2346]

Of all those, I prefer 7 and 10. XP was really a transition phase. I personally like how Windows became more resilient instead of restrictive. But it took some glaring pages from Apple UI design (most notably in Vista and 11) meaning it will always be a step behind.

[@8covers938]

​@@kickpaw when windows 10 freezes, windows 7 window borders show up

[@wiktorthecoolguy-official]

Windows 3.0: *Cries in the corner.*

[@Cyr3x7]

Yea

[@z3n._fr]

And windows 9 too

[@JBH2192]

CE too

[@dekosplay139]

​@@z3n._frwindows doesnt have windows 9

[@milka_and_bluey]

windows NONEXISTANT too man.

[@JustMatt87]

The ultimate minimalist desktop

[@TowerWatchTV]

Windows 11 = 4 squares Next one will literally just be called "Window" and have a single square.

[@GladBacon]

​@@TowerWatchTVnext we will have "" with nothiNg

[@PixelBrushArt]

what if you replace Explorer.exe with previous Windows' Explorer.exes?

[@bombowyolaf1244]

Pov you do it and now you dond have an windows 10 you hawe an windows XP

[@sansuusilly]

you what a windows xp @@bombowyolaf1244

[@becookieacookiegod]

Or older windows with newer exe? Tho, That might not work due to things that newer explorere does older windows doesnt "understand"

[@dinguls]

I'm gonna try that

[@diehe5986]

​@Dinguslamer how'd it go?

[@another-niko-pfp-holder]

i like how you can use windows kind of normally with just the notepad

[@JamesSmith-ix5jd]

"You must reinstall Windows", typical Microsoft solution.

[@Lofote]

So how different would you as a programmer handle that unexpected exception?

[@JamesSmith-ix5jd]

@@Lofote Keep the list of hashes of most important binaries, if any of them are wrong start a system check/recovery of the files from some system archive to at least make it bootable. After boot, show a warning that the system was tampered with, ask the user to back up his files and seek professional help immediately. Load system binaries not by name but by a hash and a digital signature. Add the checkbox to the settings 'Professional mode' where all system checks and security is disabled, the user can modify anything apart from the kernel and proprietary bits.

[@matermelon.]

@@JamesSmith-ix5jdand how exactly would they do that on the old days

[@Tigglesmith]

@@JamesSmith-ix5jd How the fuck would they do that in 1995

[@JamesSmith-ix5jd]

@@Tigglesmith What do you mean? MD5 hash is from 1991. Encryption and keys are also not particularly new concepts, RSA is from ~1977. Signatures were probably not that important in early Windows because web and networks were not yet popular, I'm not complaining about that, just saying what I would have done instead.

[@World_of_OSes]

Upon further inspection, the reason why Notepad didn't come up after logging on, after having replaced Explorer with Notepad in Windows Vista and later is because Notepad won't open if it's got a different name, or in a different location. If I replace Explorer with Command Prompt, Command Prompt will come up after logging on. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpO6mKqMnLSoh5Y

[@GiorgioCapocasa]

This is bizarre. I thought that a relatively modern os would perform some hash check before opening a system executable. Do you know whether this has been exploited in the past? For example, for autorunning a keylogger or or some other malware that would then execute explorer.exe so that the user would not notice? Or even by replacing explorer.exe with a modified, malignant version of the shell so that even task manager would not be able to show it?

[@dxv1l_x]

@@GiorgioCapocasa task Manager is able to Show Explorer and also able to kill it

[@abhishekshekhar4226]

Hi @World_of_OSes how did you install office 2010 in Windows XP ?

[@ThatRandomToast]

@@abhishekshekhar4226 You just launch the installer and install it as you would in later versions of Windows. No workarounds needed.

[@abhishekshekhar4226]

@@ThatRandomToast It gives me an error in Windows XP saying: "Not a valid Win32 application" when launching the setup.exe It works in Windows Vista but I don't know why it doesn't work with Windows XP

[@MrRf81]

Fun fact... We used to make Win 3.1 kiosks by replacing progman with whatever executable we wanted running on the kiosk. Florsheim Shoes self ordering kiosks At the mall did this.

[@markusTegelane]

you can skip the slow login if you press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and then select cancel from the Windows Security menu

[@World_of_OSes]

Any idea why it takes ages to log in?

[@markusTegelane]

@@World_of_OSes I guess it waits for explorer.exe to load and get to the desktop, but since there is no desktop component if you rename/replace explorer.exe, it keeps waiting for it and eventually times out.

[@msedgeundwinfan]

@@markusTegelaneyou can change the timeout by creating a dword value named DelayedDesktopSwitchTimeout in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System and with the value to the number in seconds

[@pb-doslegacy2020]

@@markusTegelane That's true. I've done it many times to avoid Windows 10/11's "Hi" screen when I install a new copy of the aforementioned two systems.

[@markusTegelane]

@tripplefives1402 how do you know that?

[@WEnthusiast]

Is it me or old versions call "Program" as "Progman"

[@World_of_OSes]

"Progman" is short form "Program Manager"

[@ONETrueEndTCOTWOFF]

purple frog man

[@bartusiesiek]

nincompoop

[@Nkmura6912-hl3mr]

Is it me or is the word progman looking kinda...... Thicccccc

[@svz5990]

​@@Nkmura6912-hl3mr*PROGMAN*

[@R4dm1n]

I like how Win9x is functionally useless without explorer but NT chugs along like nothing happened. Shows the test of time that NT can go wrong in less ways than Win9x.

[@IISTAB]

Yeah. Because new versions of windows were improved as it should be!

[@akeiai]

​@@IISTABand they add a lot of bloatware on top. Really annoying tbh. They could have stuck with a very light system but they run more stuff than necessary, and a lot of those aren't even essential for the system. The system underneath is perfect, like fast, and backward-compatible. The user space however is full of bloat.

[@IISTAB]

@@akeiai yeah I hate bloatware like "AntIviRUs" it's litterally annoying to have a antivirus window pop up while you're gaming.

[@SamFlador]

Thanks Captain Obvious

[@nachovyofficial]

I really like the selection of background music!

[@monad_tcp]

8:44 wow that unlocked memories, I remember you could do that if explorer.exe died

[@justinhamilton8647]

the w95 section scratches my brain so good every question I had you answered immediately like what if I rename this and open that, so satisfying

[@redrony]

what I was really interested in is all the evolution of windowses. How they changed, it's all connected with change of hardware It was even more interesting than the video idea for me as I was doing such things in the past, playing with explorer, replacing sethc.exe (there was exploit, still working on win10) so i already knew what was gonna happens but you got me with that nostalgy from old windowses, names of programs with upper-case :) Thanks for video)

[@kgaming7599]

i love how Windows 1.0 still looks more responsive than a school Chromebook

[@robertchapman2174]

LOL

[@pierwszywolnynick]

7:47 - DOS is not blocking you from renaming the file, it simply supported only 8.3 names so EXPLORER.EXE is the same as EXPLORER1.EXE because it's limited to 8 characters

[@Galaxy.Windows]

8:16 thats a fallback error message from Windows 3.0

[@williamthecoolboy]

I remember replacing explorer.exe with another app in Windows 7 and it was working correctly...

[@World_of_OSes]

Upon further inspection, the reason why Notepad didn't come up after logging on, after having replaced Explorer with Notepad in Windows Vista and later is because Notepad won't open if it's got a different name, or in a different location. If I replace Explorer with Command Prompt, Command Prompt will come up after logging on. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpO6mKqMnLSoh5Y

[@williamthecoolboy]

@@World_of_OSes I see.. thank you!

[@wvistalover]

Nice, keep up the good work man 👍🏻

[@snarkbaited]

It makes me happy how 'simple' windows 1 and 2 look, like essentially a colorful DOS prompt with various characters everywhere. That being said I haven't used win 1 or 2, only 2000

[@Eyevou]

Vista: Everything changed then The Fire Nation attacked.

[@BestYoutuber893]

Turn up the Computer/hkey-local-machine/security/heat

[@becookieacookiegod]

bruh .

[@HonsHon]

Was that mispelling done on purpose?

[@yokai1235]

i find really interesting how you can visibly see the improvements by just looking at the desktop and how the quality start dip on vista and completely goes nose dive from 8 and onwards

[@TechnicalIssuesOfficial]

The reason the shell doesn't start if you have no app named "Explorer" is because in the registry editor the shell is set to "Explorer.exe" and if there is no Explorer.exe there will be no shell for it to start.

[@r.t.5767]

There is something extremely elegant about how Windows used to look like back in the days

[@IspartaliKonstantinos]

wow! i thought a file wont be that important but it seems i am wrong :D.Good content bro!

[@modables]

i mean there's a single line of code in windows that if you remove then the whole thing won't start at all

[@IspartaliKonstantinos]

@@modables oh shoot! =_D i really didnt think Windows is that vulnerable! what if a virus deletes it? is destroying a computer that easy?

[@modables]

@@IspartaliKonstantinos yeah it's pretty easy, but a virus could never do something like that. you'd have to have pretty decent computer knowledge to pull off something like that because windows makes impossible to do something like that. i mean I don't even remember what the single line of code was because I found this out in 2020 so I'm probably just yapping nonsense ngl

[@guitarhero01234]

​​@@IspartaliKonstantinosMalware doesn't really aim to trash your system anymore. Script kiddies went from trolling to stealing bank information and demanding crypto payments long ago

[@AustriaColorised]

when in doubt, ask the prog man

[@Gatorade69]

Ehh, he always wants me to smoke weed with him while he rambles on. I would rather ask Jeeves.

[@totallynothyper964]

Or the Pro G-Man when you need to smell the ashes

[@ΕΛΕΝΗ-λ2δ]

more like purple frog man

[@Arcangel6292]

Man i loves winvista back in the olddays... it was pretty

[@greengreenanimations]

8, 8.1, 10 and 11 can run totally fine, just Task Manager becoming the new explorer.exe.

[@OfficialWatchOS7]

Changing explorer.exe to Task Manager, you can use its Run system.

[@inzaghiposumaalkahfi9650]

Next : What happens if you rename explorer.exe in different *Beta Versions* of Windows?

[@쉬릿-0_o]

😮i😮i

[@axtrifonov]

7:47 of cource it can't because file name is too long for DOS

[@ArsenTech]

Keep Going Because You Made a Great Job

[@monad_tcp]

32:09 Windows11 is really fast to boot compared to W8 and W10 because it uses a new system that's basically loading from a saved-state, at least for the kernel side, its almost like "initramfs". Its fun to see operating systems converging to solutions to the problems.

[@jue130]

Fast boot is a thing since Windows 8. And i always disable it, because it causes many problems

[@edelzocker8169]

Win 11 needs 5 minutes to boot on my PC...

[@notquitek3t]

the only point of initramfs is to load a base system in order to mount the disk, to finish booting (in a usual sense)

[@Lofote]

14:07 It should be rename-able if you start cmd.exe, then kill explorer.exe e.g. from Task Manager. You don't need Linux for it. But of course you need admin rights, just like in all Windows NT-based versions :)... By the way, in all versions at least from Win3.x you can define a different shell than progman.exe or explorer.exe, and then you eliminate the need for that EXE completely. And in safe mode you can boot to command prompt, then explorer.exe isn't needed as well. In fact Windows Server Core (e.g. Windows Server 2022) for example doesn't even install explorer.exe at all :). So it never was a necessary component, just the default shell. Oh and the reason why login screens always work in Windows NT based OS is of course thats before the shell even loads ;)... 17:48 Actually Windows XP logs on just as fast as Win2000 here, however the login screen has a waiting routing, it waits for the shell to come up to switch to the new virual desktop (login/security dialog are on a different virtual desktop than the users desktop, and thats from day #1 of Windows NT 3.1). Thats just a visual effect. It has a timeout so it finally switches over at some point (in the registry you can set the number of seconds after which it times out). You can press Ctrl+Alt+Del before that timeout and it will respond immediatly, and after "Cancel" you are on the actual (blank) desktop.

[@zielscheibchen7773]

why didnt you test the progman-mode in Win95?

[@askhowiknow5527]

It’s neat how well Windows 95 copes That’s a lot of extra code there that wasn’t meant to be used in the end

[@Tethrarxitet]

The code is still used by Windows 10. I accidentally crashed Explorer and tried minimizing a window, and it did show a small toolbar as well.

[@The_DreadStorm]

On some versions of Windows, if you launch the task manager, you can run "Progman.exe" and end up using the Win3x-style Program Manager. With some minor tweaking, you can make it the shell instead of Explorer.

[@bombacimulayim1453]

This is why i never used internet explorer on my pc. If it fails , whole os crashes.

[@i_make_beats]

0 likes and 0 replies on pinned comment is wild

[@i_make_beats]

and yeah i agree arc is better

[@bombacimulayim1453]

@@i_make_beats my favorite is mozilla

[@uriellibano9244]

commenting and liking just because i don't want it to be wild

[@dermond]

Isn't this Windows explorer? The file manager not Internet explorer

[@guilhermethiesenramos]

Have you tried to run the renamed "explorer1" at win 8.1, 10 and 11? Same result as vista, 7 and 8.0? And if you rename back to "explorer" it just fixes it, or messed at the reg lvl?

[@mcbpete]

Me from around 30 years ago totally would've done the replace ProgMan with Winfile trick at 3:30 if I knew about it 😁 99% of my time I would exclusively ran applications through the file manager and it would've sped up my creaky machine by just starting what I wanted when launching windows.

[@Gatorade69]

I used to just start Linux from the command line and load the few Linux native games from there. I felt I got better performance not having a GUI.

[@progamerZ-s8h]

1:14 i paused right at the flash its just messy and giltchyness

[@gabryproject]

What would happen if Windows 10 explorer.exe was replaced in Windows 11?

[@justezzy_]

"It's just a prank!" The prank evolving through generations:

[@ShadowRing846]

I probably suggest not to do it on your main PC because it may causes problems

[@pessie83]

I remember some kind of Windows version, but the folders were arranged in a sort of rectangle in the style of an open file cabinet with a little triangle in the top right corner of each folder and that little triangle was yellow, lilac or cyan. I don't know what that version of Winodws is called.

[@Pumpker_246]

0:53 WHAT HAPPENED

[@Zr2Late]

He just ended the session

[@sbsrijay2682]

Looks like it had a corrupted blue screen

[@sbsrijay2682]

@@Zr2Latethere was another screen that flashes for like less than a second but it looks like what i said above.

[@Zr2Late]

Oh, you're right! Sorry, didn't see that one there!

[@j4n1x19]

This is ordinary behavior for Windows 1.0 and part of it's initialization

[@jameswiggle]

31:04...would renaming explorer1.exe back to explorer fix it?

[@Bfrsf4]

I am not a PC Professional but I think no or yes, I do not know the answer or if it is yes or no.

[@teamredstudio7012]

I love your videos, Stefan!

[@juanbastinfla8143]

As an expert with tons of experience with computers, this is similar to a phenomenon known as "Sidorovich Effect".

[@newyoshistudio]

These videos are somewhat entertaining

[@AliYassinToma]

Whats with the portal music at 10:00

[@World_of_OSes]

Alexander Nakarada - Space Ambience

[@AceAmericiumWind]

3:36 windows 3.1 + 2.0 hybrid

[@der.Schtefan]

The reason you were not able to rename Explorer to Explorer1 in Msdos mode for win95 is the 8 character limit of msdos. You basically tried to rename Explorer to Explorer, the 1 got cut off.

[@Sajjad.A]

Will replacing explorer.exe in Win11 with explorer.exe from Win10 give me the old (better) look of Win10?

[@thetheochannel_]

No, you also need to changes things likr the ui themes in the dlls

[@donutstand]

this video takes me back to when i first got an interest in computers when i was young and was so fascinated by having so many different options to do one thing, like opening programs through anything from program manager to task manager to notepad. seems like nowadays windows only wants you to be able to do something one way and for that one way to change with every update

[@7EEVEE]

33 minutes of tragic beep boop music and text? You're out of your actual mind

[@쉬릿-0_o]

,xal8 a8 8😮

[@JTwee]

@@쉬릿-0_o what

[@splashmanej3]

beep boop baap

[@LeoSmith-p2p]

I don't know what you mean by they're out of their mind

[@ksnumidium9168]

What did you expect? The video does what it says on the tin. Every single version of Windows is covered. Of course it's going to take a while you god damn dumbass 💀

[@SXCgt]

on windows 8, 8.1, 10, and 11, if you go to recovery mode/ advanced startup, explorer.exe does not exist, so you have to turn it on in command prompt.

[@DccToon]

missed opportunity to rename progman.exe to pregman.exe

[@playspeedcode]

Noobgman.exe

[@kingpanguan]

postgman.exe

[@mrbackup993]

frogman.exe

[@nokti...]

🫃.exe

[@papitafrita1629]

cartman.exe

[@xVoidCypher]

How did you record this so cleanly? Did you split the image and record it on another device somehow?

[@atumra5]

A winrar glitch happened to me once, where I could set an .exe program inside winrar file explorer to launch as another program, I accidentally set all .exe programs to start with winrar.exe. Once I rebooted my PC everything, every process, every program that started with windows 7 started as a winrar window. It was crazy, I didn’t know how to reverse this so I just backed up everything and formatted my computer lol

[@MthaMenMon]

I had a trojan that did this to me back in 2012, except every file would open the trojan instead, asking for money. F you "WinHomeSecurity".

[@RoseliGarbini]

Windows 95 won’t let you to rename ever on MS-DOS when you rename after login it login on with error ‘Error When load EXPLORER.EXE' You must relnstall Windows’ when you click on ‘OK’ shutsdown in Windows 98 same as windows 95

[@infoxgaming79]

Mom! World of OSes uploaded a new video!

[@reptilo.oficial]

​@@BOB-vl7ffsmile face

[@WhileTrueCode]

broo at 3:00 i was just thinking "dang i wish he would test with another exe like notepad" then like magic thats exactly what you do! i like you 🤠

[@sxlstxce]

im half asleep rn and the msuic is making me ascend wtf

[@jugro7639]

You actually improved WindowsME 😂

[@BryndanMeyerholtTheRealDeal]

I wonder what happens if the names of critical files were swapped with each other in different OS versions. Obviously, don't do this on a machine you care a lot about.

[@hugipreaq]

The vibe of old windows... I like it

[@deadruins]

I remember that exact thing happened on my pc in past when explorer patcher for windows 11 got bugged out. I get deal with the problem by boot up Oculus Link, boot up Steam(VR) from Oculus, boot up browser of steam, then reinstalled explorer patcher. Ah, classic.

[@JiosX]

Still in love with Vista/7's UI design

[@thaking2k766]

So waht you're telling me is the easiest way to prank my tech support buddy is to rename explorer.exe

[@powerdude_dk]

Very interesting and entertaining videos! subbed =D

[@riprusyoutube]

24:03 sas💀💀

[@World_of_OSes]

That's a video game provided by my school back it 2011, it was supposed to improve my social skills.

[@World_of_OSes]

www.secretagentsociety.com/

[@Galaxy.Windows]

fun fact: in Windows 11, if you put the explorer.exe from Windows 10 version 1903 it glitches out with a lot of the windows 11 beta ui and missing stuf

[@matermelon.]

why that specific version of windows 10?

[@Galaxy.Windows]

because i had that installed in a VM and i have tested the explorer.exe from that in Windumb 11 and it had a broken ui (Windows 11 was in a VM too, as my hardware doesnt support it)

[@Gabriel13046]

how many new computers bro had to buy😭🙏

[@thevipersofficial_1stplace]

You can change operating systems on a pc or you can use vm that vm will put another computer inside your computer.

[@norawaylet]

yoooo the pin of shame

[@Eday-yo9oz]

He used virtual machine.

[@Hotdog69456]

​@@Eday-yo9ozthat correct +69420

[@krysztal602]

nobody in the reply section knows what irony is

[@niamhk1973]

Music at 8:15 ?

[@manson_ds]

Какая мерзкая "музыка"

[@ДИРИЖАБЛЬ22852]

Всм

[@RobinLeslie-i6x]

Pin of shame lol

[@Galaxy.Windows]

in Windows 3.0, MSDOS.exe is the Msdos executive, and the kernel is gone. in Windows 3.1, they removed the Msdos executive and reversi

[@jet-it9cr]

No way bro not the reversi😢 can't believe Steve Balmer lied to us :(

[@yukihovista98]

​@@jet-it9crSteve baller

[@Super_Mario_64]

Windows 11 goes more to an mobile interface

[@LaintReal]

first time i heard phonk music in a Windows Video also do you use linux as You're Default Pc?

[@ConclusiveLion663]

7:37

[@KhazgarGuy24]

7:51 Bro it's Ubuntu, not Linux.

[@praecipitatus]

Ubuntu itself is the OS, Linux is the kernel. You don't say "I'll run it from Windows 10", you say Windows. It's an umbrella term.

[@KhazgarGuy24]

@@praecipitatus ok

[@raivansshow9829]

3 days

[@KhazgarGuy24]

@@raivansshow9829 bruh wdym?

[@쉬릿-0_o]

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[@impersonateplayz]

Ive never really worked with devices like that but i think the reason it takes so long to logon is that its checking all files for explorer.exe and when it dosent find it it dosent know what to boot also when you rename the notepad i think windows knows its notepad and not the explorer

[@AidenJukes-oh9lm]

20:19 he got the plants vs zombies folder lol, is this a fresh install, does it COME with PVZ?

[@AnatoliiGD31415]

What is the music on 6:53?

[@World_of_OSes]

Razihel - Faster

[@pfoxhound]

Could you make a video about each windows on how PC will behave without power cord.

[@Artafp6003]

7:52 why you used linux instead of windows pe?

[@World_of_OSes]

To not make this video too Windows-centric

[@yaroslavpanych2067]

That is not different: those minimized "bars" are just located in different position, precisely on coordinates (-32000;-32000). They are still there, and you can interract with them, if you know how pull them into the WORKAREA

[@mikeuk1927]

Interesting. Could you share where you learned it? I would like to read it too, to learn more about weird windows stuff. And how do you move the minimized windows to visible coords?

[@MrPanek]

I really like to remember Windows nostalgia, how Windows used to be, otherwise a very nice video, I give it a thumbs up.

[@StereoBucket]

I think on win95 or 98, if you had explorer exe in the root of C drive, windows would prioritize launching that instead of explorer in windows directory. I remember reading someone's story about how a game with an exe that was named explorer that they placed in the C:\ made their windows not work (until they got into DOS and fixed it) I tried finding this story, but oh well, no dice.

[@alexsmart9576]

Actually, the explorer.exe filename is stored in the "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell" registry key. Modern, primarily .NET-based Windows components (such as 11's new Winlogon) internally log a FileNotFoundException error when "explorer.exe" (which is in turn taken from the registry) is not found at the path specified (sic!). Older Win32-based Winlogon revisions catch a SIGSEGV signal, and stall up (albeit not crash/enter NR state) with the illegal address written into the Event Log, in case the EventLog service itself runs. Feel free to correct me if I have made any mistakes.

[@JimiReader]

Registry Key for explorer.exe: The commenter correctly identifies the registry key where the explorer.exe filename is stored. This is indeed located at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell. Error Handling: The comment suggests that modern, primarily .NET-based Windows components (such as the new Winlogon in Windows 11) log a FileNotFoundException if explorer.exe is not found at the path specified in the registry. However, this statement is not entirely accurate. While .NET-based components might indeed use FileNotFoundException for file-related errors, the handling of explorer.exe not being found is more complex and involves various error handling mechanisms within the operating system. Winlogon Behavior: The commenter mentions that older Win32-based Winlogon revisions catch a SIGSEGV signal and stall up if explorer.exe is not found. This statement is misleading. Winlogon is a crucial system process responsible for handling logon and logoff operations, and its behavior regarding explorer.exe execution or absence is not solely dependent on Win32 or .NET-based components. Moreover, SIGSEGV is a signal related to segmentation faults in Unix-like operating systems and is not directly relevant to Windows error handling mechanisms. Event Log Handling: The comment mentions that older Win32-based Winlogon revisions might write an illegal address into the Event Log if an error occurs. While it's true that Windows might log errors related to critical system processes like Winlogon, the specific behavior mentioned here is not standard or explicitly documented. Errors related to explorer.exe not being found would typically be logged as system-level errors rather than specifically mentioning illegal addresses. To correct the commenter's statements, you could provide a more accurate explanation of how Windows handles the execution of explorer.exe and the error handling mechanisms involved, without attributing specific behaviors to Win32 or .NET components. Additionally, it would be beneficial to clarify any misunderstandings about signals like SIGSEGV and their relevance to the Windows operating system. (By the way, it is written by A.I.)

[@who_bur7k]

11:02 why there is a windows 9? it hasn't released and video is not have windows 9? can you explain it?

[@Mitzi-chan224]

Windows 98 means Windows 1998

[@Gatorade69]

Can you explain what you are trying to to say ? It's gobbledygook.

[@who_bur7k]

@@Mitzi-chan224 I know but look closely there is a windows 9 after the windows 8.1 why is it there ?

[@maedero05]

Rename no, duplicate with alternative name ? Graphical might work but dos box commandline ?

[@BlueShepReborn]

in description: Razihel is now RAIZHELL. The title called "RAIZHELL - Faster" instead, not "Razihel".

[@windowsfan322]

11:01 - 11:02 what is that winver switcher

[@borisvolski]

I like how all Windows versions above vista reveal their old code of stacking all folded apps into blocks along eachother in the bottom even though they don't do that normally