w2k Explorer makes wine crash in RtlRaiseException

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Thu Jan 30 12:20:14 CST 2003


Rolf Kalbermatter wrote:
 > before Explorer is going to run under Wine, there needs to be
> a whole lot more done than that. The entire shell support in Wine is not
> at the point where Explorer will be able to do anything useful...

Yep.  We need to implement a lot of shell hooks...
people want to be able to install plugins that add features
to Explorer.

> Explorer although an application is so tightly bound to the underlying OS,
> that I doubt that you could mix the Explorer application with different
> Windows versions itself. You definitely can't run W2K Explorer on a W9x
> platform and vice versa.
> 
> In general I think it is probably simpler to get a Wine equivalent of Explorer
> written than to get Wine to the point where it will run Windows Explorer. 

Probably.  We'll still need to implement those shell hooks, though.
- Dan

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