I need to find some strings that the current version of Windows is using. For example, when I create a new folder, it is initially named \"New Folder\" on English Vista. I
This is not easy. These strings are private data for Windows Explorer, and as such they can (and probably do) change between releases. You can hack something up where you do a lot of version checking and read the appropriate resource string, but that seems like a losing battle. What are you trying to accomplish?