Windows 2000 Explorer.EXE in Windows XP x86

[Windows2020FAN]

I want to use explorer.exe in Windows XP, in Windows 7 x64 copying shell32 and browseui is possible with Windows 2000 RTM explorer.exe, but in Windows XP is there any way to run Windows 2000 explorer.exe?

[German]

About 10 years ago I tried to do this. Nothing worked out for me.
2000 / XP has a different set of icons and API calls.

If you really want to, you can gradually replace the resources in EXPLORER.EXE (XP) with similar ones from 2k.

[Meow]

For some reason about a year ago I ran it on xp x86 and it worked in safe mode. that however was on the rtm and not sp3.

[jpavatargirl]

That's an interesting concept. I saw a Youtube video a couple weeks ago where someone attempted something similar. Surprisingly it worked. You might wanna try looking on there. i think it was by a Youtuber named Enderman?

[mrfunnylaughs]

I don't recall Enderman making a video based on something around that concept, but I guess it's worth a try.

[Meow]

I don't recall Enderman making a video based on something around that concept, but I guess it's worth a try.

He did, just not with 2000’s explorer but it was XP’s.

[os2fan2]

Fred Vorck did this with nt4 into w2k, and LitePC did this with 95a into 98.

In both cases, there's a heavily hacked shell32.dll that came with it.

I dug out FDV's version. It does not run under Vista 6.1 ("seven")