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Explorer == Shell. The Explorer windows you see in the shell are merely windows.

• gmiller123456 8y ago
  I think the point was more that Explorer is a single program doing two wildly different things with little overlap. While what should/shouldn't be divided into multiple programs is very subjective, I doubt you'd find many programmers that agree that the functionality of the file explorer and the taskbar should be the same program. It's also confusing to users who tried to access a non-existent network share, and their taskbar locks up [ignoring the fact that neither of the programs should lock up anyway].
  • iggldiggl 8y ago
    There is an option to run (file) Explorer windows in a separate process from the Explorer instance that's powering the shell, although even after all these years it's not on by default.