Thanks for the reply. (Just to make sure, you are not using an Office Save As
dialog box by any chance instead of just the standard Windows dialog box?)

This is interesting. What could be the source of the behavior, if not
comctl32.dll?

The size of my comctl32.dll is 548 624 bytes, the file version is 5.81. Under
"Product version", it says 5.50.4916.400. Is yours the same?

Thanks,

Ivan



"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message
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Win Me with IE6 SP1 does not display the problem as described. That is
when using Save As and selecting the shortcut to a folder the file name
remains unaltered and is saved in the required location. The same is true
of Win Me with IE5.5, that is out of the box with no updates.
Comctl32.dll is version 5.81.
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Mike Maltby
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Ivan Bútora <xxx@xxx.xxx> wrote:

> (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