Windows 7 to 10, is it safe?

Question

Windows

There is an Explorer.exe shell, is it safe to replace it in Windows 7 with a file from Windows 10? Will it work? // for the first time on Habré, since this is the question, there is nowhere to test it, and I don’t want to break the real host.

Answer 1

Put Virtual Box, install win7, replace the files, check it out.

spoiler

Работать не будет

PS and what will be the profit? Do you think the windows will be replaced? Well, no, they won't change. You need to change the entire DE, which is not possible in Windows. You can use your DE over the system one.

Answer 2

Look at the list of its dependencies - there are a lot of system dlls - which is not surprising. Will have to replace them, most likely. And then other programs using the same system libraries will fall off. And you will also have to replace them ... And as a result, win7 will turn into win10 completely)))

Answer 3

Install virtual machine manager on the machine. Put Windows in it. Replace whatever you want, see the result.
Ideally, it would be nice to be able to change files directly from the host system, while shutting down the guest system.

Answer 4

Create a virtual machine and download the ISO image of Windows 7 and Windows 10. First install 7ku and then 10ku and check, the main thing is that the computer is not old, otherwise it may not pull the virtual machine ;-)
And it turns out that the question is not difficult.