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What happened to WinXShell? (not an issue)

Open comdlg32 opened this issue 3 years ago • 8 comments

I have seen newer versions of WinXShell on Win10XPE, but it looks nothing like the version (shellpart) i compiled. Did the project get closed source? Did the project get stalled/discontinued?

comdlg32 avatar Nov 24 '21 14:11 comdlg32

I agree! This project should be updated or archived.

pog5 avatar Nov 24 '21 14:11 pog5

I have seen newer versions of WinXShell on Win10XPE, but it looks nothing like the version (shellpart) i compiled.

The one in Win10XPE is rewrite with DuiLib + Lua to create the UI elements(UI_Settings, UI_WIFI, etc). Those parts is seperated with PExplorer, They are single UI components, can run with Windows Explorer.exe, or other shells. You can't use UWP UIs in Windows PE, so They be developped. (That part has nothing with this project.)

The origin shell part(startmenu, taskbar, notifyarea, clock) is no much change. (added 10+ lines to call SetWindowTheme() for taskbar button style, make it be good on Windows 11.)

slorelee avatar Nov 27 '21 03:11 slorelee

Did the project get stalled/discontinued?

I shared the codes for the one who want to create their own shell on Windows, and hope some others can improve/contribute on the project, but it is sad. This project has been created in six years ago, but no any issue, and pullrequest, except this one now(6 year later).

The shellpart branch is stable, still can be built and run on Windows 11, Windows Server 2022.

The new one --- WinXShell.exe use other libraries, lots of them are not open source, It is another different project.

slorelee avatar Nov 27 '21 03:11 slorelee

I have seen newer versions of WinXShell on Win10XPE, but it looks nothing like the version (shellpart) i compiled. Did the project get closed source? Did the project get stalled/discontinued?

Can you give a link to the one you compiled? I'd love to give it a shot.

ibay770 avatar Jul 18 '22 19:07 ibay770

Are you going to be updating WinXShell for the latest version of windows? It hangs on XPE when booting, the flyout and LUA tests work but taskbar and startmenu take like 10min to eventually load. Hope all is well. ;) Both projects are amazing!

illsk1lls avatar Oct 02 '23 04:10 illsk1lls

Are you going to be updating WinXShell for the latest version of windows? It hangs on XPE when booting, the flyout and LUA tests work but taskbar and startmenu take like 10min to eventually load. Hope all is well. ;) Both projects are amazing!

The released WinXShell works fine on the latest version of Windows (Windows 11 23h2, or 25xxx preivew version).

I don't know which version you used, the lastest version add a docs description for the lua functions.

https://www.lanzoux.com/b011xhbsh Password: shell

The new beta version is WinXShell_RC5.1.2_beta2. WinXShell_RC5.1.2_beta2.zip

slorelee avatar Nov 12 '23 06:11 slorelee

TSPlus makes a modified version for their remote software. I think theres is version 3. Here is the link to their remote desktop software, once it's installed you can just copy the winxshell folder , located in C:/wsession/winxshell and then uninstall tsoft.

Link to latest files posted as of 11/12/23 so you don't have to do the work as yet.

ibay770 avatar Nov 12 '23 08:11 ibay770

Is it possible to add support for the CornerRadius parameter to applications for WINPe in XML?

ZerG-MOS avatar Feb 18 '24 15:02 ZerG-MOS