Explorer.exe
A program called Windows Explorer, controls the Icons, The taskbar, and the windows, such as folders, My Documents, and My Computer. Your computer starts up more essential things first, then loads up Windows Explorer (Windows Explorer should not be confused with Internet Explorer.)
An application is a program (generally an executable file .exe) that can be run on your system. Windows Media Player would be an application, as would Internet Explorer.
No. They both use the same desktop paradigm, but Windows 98 integrated Internet Explorer into the desktop shell.
The program Windows Desktop Search, as it was known on Windows XP, was a default program on all Windows XP computers that searched your computer for files with a given keyword. The program is now called Windows Search but still does the same basic function.
Files with an extension of .exe are executable files. This type of file is one which is used to open applications games etc. it is the main file for each program. For example to open Internet Explore when you doubel click on the icon it actually make the ie.exe file open up and this gives you the internet explorer window.
Most of them are. Of course you can put an executable file on the desktop, but the operating system does not that. It creates shortcuts.
You can run a program in any OS. For example an executable program can be run in windows by .exe file extension.
The program used to store files on windows is called: Windows Explorer.
Windows explorer is the process which allows you to view your desktop, icons, browse folders. You can find it by opening task manager and locate explorer.exe
The program for Windows Explorer, explorer.exe, should be located in C:\Windows\System32.
The same way you create any other program, by designing it and then coding it. A shell program is no different to any other program in terms of how it is created. Its purpose is simply to provide access to the applications and utilities, perhaps organise them in some way, and to present key system components such as a clock or calendar, as well as system notifications from background services. In Microsoft Windows, for instance, Windows Explorer is the default shell program and this provides a desktop, taskbar, start menu and notification area. However, only the first instance of Explorer provides the shell. All other instances of Explorer simply open navigation windows. But while you cannot replace Windows Explorer itself (it is an integral part of the operating system), you can replace the shell component.
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