Garg, still have to disagree with you. They are two different executables and processes. Run your task manager to see what processes are running, you can then fire up internet explorer and see that process (iexplorer.exe). You can kill the iexplorer process and explorer still runs (explorer.exe). In fact by law Microsoft CANNOT require internet explorer to be a required part of the operating system. A crash by iexplorer does not crash explorer.exe….it might, but its not a causal relationship.
They may use many of the same components, but that means nothing. I mean cars all use the same roads, fuel and traffic lights but that does not make all cars identical just because they use the same resources. There are few things I would say I am expert in, but 30+ years of getting paid to write software means you probably should not bet against me.
Garg, care to lay some coin down on a wager over this? :wink: