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Comment Re:But (Score 2) 375

Isn't this just disabling the auto-load of explorer.exe

No. Explorer.exe is a lot more integrated into the OS.

This is more like giving you a phone OS in which the desktop OS is an app.

Open the task manager and kill explorer.exe

You lose the desktop icons, the taskbar and any open Explorer/Control Panel windows, but the OS keeps on working, you can switch between open programs with Alt-Tab and open new programs from the task manager.
Explorer.exe is only a few UI parts, I can imagine that Win8 wil load/unload it on demand, when an "old style" program is started or the user wants to switch to the "regular" desktop.

When done with this experiment just start explorer.exe again and everything is back to normal.

(Tested on Windows 7)

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