• affiliate@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    i wonder what kinds of terrible and awful things are being done in the implementation of explorer.exe. i cant think of any filebrowsing task so performance heavy that it would interrupt a shutdown or cause any kind of noticeable delay when opening a new window.

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      3 months ago

      Keep in mind explorer.exe is not just the file manager, but also the entire desktop itself.

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        3 months ago

        The desktop, task bar, start menu, Alt-Tab switcher, and a bunch of other stuff are in Explorer.exe. It’s the second app that starts when you log in, after userinit.exe.