There were many such shells on the market-place, both shareware and commercial.
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One of the very popular categories for Windows software was replacing the shell, with something more functional. Many DOS menus allowed nesting of menus inside menus etc, while progman, largely to display the wonders of MDI, displayed 'documents' in an icon-field window, and each document contained separate links, which could only be loaded when that document (group) was open. While these programs were an improvement over the MS-DOS executive, they were a long way short of even the DOS menus that early 90's computers came with. Windows 3.x did indeed come with Progman.exe and Winfile. Windows 3.0 was the first to offer effective large memory models, but the machines of this era typically had 2-4 MB, with high-end machines at 8MB ram. While Windows 2.x was also sold retail, it was also sold as a run-time environment for assorted programs, where one might set something like 'shell=aldus.exe', to run aldus pagemaker.
Does Microsoft use this term? Josh 21:17, 15 October 2007 (UTC) Windows Shells This article doesn't seem to be very concistent about what Windows Shell means.
BTW Win95 allowed to choose the shell during the installation.- Dojarca 17:37, 12 June 2007 (UTC) Inconcistency Also no information about Windows Explorer, winfile, etc. Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.47.89.154 ( talk) 05:54, 30 September 2009 (UTC) This article confuses things Its use is not just integral to processes such as explorer.exe, but with the re-use of components throughout the operating system, it seems perfectly satisfactory to have the (already present) foreword on the matter at the top of the page, as any further splitting will result in a good old fashioned mess. xpclient Talk 13:52, 28 March 2009 (UTC)Īnother nay - regardless of the dependencies on the shell previously mentioned, and those structures it depends on, the shell is an entity in its own right, worthy of note, and with an important role to play. The shell also encompasses the taskbar, Start menu, the desktop, search UI (in 2000/XP) and other shell namespaces. Program Manager and Windows Explorer already are separate articles, but Windows Explorer is a subset of the Explorer shell/Windows shell. Plus, there isn't info to warrant separate articles on topics such as MS-DOS Executive. Poor! 194.22.4.101 09:31, 27 March 2007 (UTC) Should not be merged but improved because Explorer only refers to the file management aspect of the shell. This article really needs to be improved or merged with Windows Explorer - there are much more to write about the XP/2003 interface. No, due to the fact that shell is not a word used in the basic understanding ie: its too complicated for the norm 75.83.101.80 06:05, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
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