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How did the Windows 95 user interface code get to the Windows NT code base?

How did the Windows 95 user interface code get to the Windows NT code base?

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·November 21, 2025
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JojoFatsani

Really wish someone would just take the win95 UI code and tell an LLM to make it work on the win11 74 bit kernel

isodev

Yes, that would be glorious. Could be the XP UI too… have some more flexibility around themes.

londons_explore

Did you try it?

I can't immediately see why explorer.exe wouldn't run and give you a start menu

hulitu

> and tell an LLM to make it work on the win11 74 bit kernel

It won't compile.

bombcar

Probably the 10 extra bits.

saghm

The extra 84 win have to go somewhere

speed_spread

I prefer to believe they just merged the two branches in SourceSafe.

plorkyeran

Microsoft never used SourceSafe for anything important internally.

onlogn

Hmm. Not sure I agree. The initial CLR for .net was in vss. Maybe it wasn’t important, but bonus points if you know why.

shawnb576

No definitely not true. It was in Source Depot if not SLM.

Traubenfuchs

Personally, I enjoyed MS source safe and exclusive file locking.