text: With IE7 , Internet Explorer has been decoupled from the Windows Shellâ '' unlike previous versions , the Internet Explorer ActiveX control is not hosted in the Windows Explorer process , but rather runs in a separate Internet Explorer process .
simplified: With IE7 , Internet Explorer has been decoupled from the Windows Shell - unlike previous versions , the Internet Explorer ActiveX control is not hosted in the Windows Explorer process , but rather runs in a separate Internet Explorer process .