According to this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q165695/ Windows Desktop update was included with IE 4, but not with IE 5 or later. Further, if you want to install Windows Desktop Update you have to first remove IE 5 or later. And finally it says that Windows Desktop Update can only be installed using the IE 4 setup, but this is no longer available from Microsoft. What a mess.
Yikes. that's certainly a mess. I see the following options
Hello, Magnus. I read the -bugs thread that resulted in this code and choose not to comment since I thought that perhaps my understanding of the implications of using SHFolder.dll v. Shell32.dll was in error.
However, installer code that I had authored before that works on both 98, XP, and NT does:
module = LoadLibrary("SHFolder.dll");
if (module != NULL) {
getfolderv1 = GetProcAddress(module, "SHGetFolderPathA");
...
invoke function, deal with ANSI path
...
FreeLibrary(module);
} else {
module = LoadLibrary("shell32.dll");
if (module != NULL) {
getfolderv2 = GetProcAddress(module, "SHGetSpecialFolderLocation");
...
invoke function, deal with UNICODE path
...
FreeLibrary(module);
} else {
throw an exception here...
}
}I think the way to guarantee success is to ship the redistributable dll, shfolder.dll with the application, which would eliminate the need to try and fall back to shell32.dll. shfolder.dll is redistributable:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6ae02498-07e9-48f1-a5d6-dbfa18d37e0f&DisplayLang=en
This article explains what needs to be done to write an installer for older platforms:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3BEN-US%3B227051
Note:
"Important: SHGetFolderPath is new to the Windows 2000 API. If you call SHGetFolderPath from an application that can be installed on a previous version of Windows, then you will need to redistribute the file SHFolder.dll with your application."
as does this one:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3BEN-US%3BQ241733
My code expects to find an shfolder.dll on < Windows 2000 systems and a shell32.dll on >= Windows 2000 systems. As I said, I *believe* you can guarantee success by just shipping shfolder.dll with the application.
Hope that helps,
Mike Mascari
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