Program Manager on Wakoopa

The 871st most popular system tool on Windows

In later versions of Microsoft Windows, starting with Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0, Program Manager was replaced by Windows Explorer as the shell, though Windows 95 gave the user an opportunity to choose which shell they preferred during setup. For backward compatibility with old applications, Program Manager was still included in later versions of Windows. It can be accessed by executing PROGMAN.EXE from the command line or run dialog. The file is located in the Windows directory in older versions, or the System32 directory in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Today, Program Manager has little practical use beyond compatibility with extremely rare, antiquated programs. Since Windows XP Service Pack 2, it has been replaced by a stub and a converter for Program Manager shortcuts to Windows Explorer shortcuts. This is to ease the transition into Windows Vista, which does not include the application at all.
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