A lot of people have asked if GeoShell will run on Vista ... I thought I would report that the answer is "Yes, but..." GeoShell will, in fact, run on 32bit Vista (not on 64bit Vista or XP), and it works fine using just the current installer from SourceForge, but you'll get an error message from WinShellEx when it starts up.

The old DDE Server hack doesn't work in Vista, and WinShellEx pops up an error to inform you of this every time it starts up. There are a couple of minor issues I've noticed also: the system tray shows multiple icons for Task Manager when it's running, and Vista's explorer doesn't place the shared startup notification in the registry, so if you run Explorer and then exit it, and run GeoShell ... GeoShell will re-run the startup items. Neither of these is a significant problem, but clearly that popup from WinShellEx is completely unacceptable

Obviously we need to patch up a Vista version of WinShellEx, including fixes to the system tray service, but there's something else bothering me right now: the search feature in the Windows Vista Explorer start menu is awesome, and if you give yourself a chance to get used to it before you install GeoShell, you're really not going to be willing to give it up. We've got to implement that as a plugin if we want Vista users to consider GeoShell.