I confirm that is what happens in Win98SE. Click any file name, not just ..lnk files, & it will replace the file name to be saved. That is useful, except in the case of .lnk files.

It's simple enough to first R-Clk & copy the true name to be saved from the name box. It's already highlighted! Paste it back in after clicking the Desktop .lnk, & all is well!


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should things get worse after this,
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"Ivan Bútora" <xxx@xxx.xxx> wrote in message news:%23RmpZbJEGHA.3528@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
| (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
|
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