I always thought the search functionality of windows was horrible till Windows 7 finally managed to deliver a decent implementation of it. >And another thing:

I always thought the search functionality of windows was horrible till Windows 7 finally managed to deliver a decent implementation of it. >And another thing: the "uninstall a program" from that silly bar on the top. Explorer is for exploring files and directories, surely not to do EVERYTHING with your computer...? Well, for about 20 odd years explorer.exe is technically just a 'shell namespace browser' and one of those shell namespaces is the 'explore files and directory' part and the others are the control panel part , uninstall programs part, etc I believe for windows 95 microsoft originally did not plan to allow third parties to extend the shell namespace because they felt a buggy shell extension could crash the entire OS - which was true for W95. There is an option now to launch these in seperate processes.