(sorry I accidently sent it before having finished writing)


Hi everyone,

as some of you might know, the Windows 98 "Save As..." dialog box, besides being
too small, clumsy, etc., has one annoying behavior. It lets you double-click
through a folder shortcut, while replacing the name of the file to be saved with
the name of the folder shortcut.

(The next paragraph is a more detailed example if you don't know what I am
talking about - so you can skip it if you do!)

Here is an example. You want to save a file called "example.abc". On your
desktop, you have a shorcut to a custom folder somewhere deep inside your hard
drive. Say this shorcut is called "Folder.lnk". Now, you click on the Desktop
icon, and then double-click on "Folder" (note that .lnk extensions are not
displayed by default even with all file extensions enabled). The Save As dialog
box indeed takes you to the folder that the shortcut is referring to, but now
the "File name" field, instead of "example.abc", you have "Folder.lnk"!!

The Windows XP "Save As..." dialog box does not have this quirk, i.e. it does
not replace the file name with the folder shortcut name.

Based on what I was able to read on the Internet, Windows XP comes with versions
5.82 and 6.0 of comctl32.dll, whereas previous versions of Windows would be
using 5.81 or earlier depending on the configuration. (This is according to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...e/versions.asp.)

I would like to ask someone using a Windows Me system and a Windows 2000 system
to test this behavior. I am wondering if it is the same as on Windows 98 or not.
I guess it should be the same, but I am not sure if comctl32.dll is the only
thing that determines this behavior, and I am not totally sure Windows 2000
users actually have the same file as Widnows 98/Me users.

Thanks!!


Ivan