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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
by number6 5y 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?
- awilfox 5y agoExplorer 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.