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I'm trying to change folder icon programmatically using changing desktop.ini on the folder. I can set a icon, but can't change it immediately through changing "IconIndex". The icon is also changed in several seconds later. Is there anybody know how to change the icon immediately? I already answered by commenting a reply at my question before. For more convenience, I will write an answer again. If you want to make any change at an appearance of any folder using Desktop.ini, use some of win32 shell functions. You shouldn't try to edit a Desktop.ini directly. It doesn't get to make any change at

I don't know if this is even possible, but how can I bind some key combination to a (C#)program, so that when that keyboard shortcut is pressed with some file selected in windows explorer, it calls specific function with path of that file as a parameter. Or can I assign some keyboard shortcut so that windows explorer opens selected file in my program(that way I could pass the path to already running instance) thanks BenV You could modify your program to run as a shell extension which would add an item for your program to the right-click menu in windows explorer, but apparently coding shell

Currently, I am using wxWidgets' wxGenericDirCtrl, which gives me a user interface to the directory tree. It looks like this: However, I would prefer it to look like this: Talking with the wxWidgets developers, they suggest that one good way to proceed is to modify the wxGenericDirCtrl class to use the native Windows directory control. I would like to contribute this functionality to wxWidgets myself, but I'm not sure where to start, and could use some suggestions to get me started. Questions: What's the correct native way to create such a control in C++. Do I use MFC, .NET, or something else?

How do i get the shell IPreviewHandler for a particular file extension? Background Windows allows developers to create a preview handler for their custom file types: Preview handlers are called when an item is selected to show a lightweight, rich, read-only preview of the file's contents in the view's reading pane. This is done without launching the file's associated application. A preview handler is a hosted application. Hosts include the Windows Explorer in Windows Vista or Microsoft Outlook 2007. I want to leverage the existing IPreviewHandler infrasturcture to get a thumbnail for a file.

I have some Excel VBA code that requires knowing the Downloads folder path. How could I do it? Since you can move around the Downloads folder (and also Documents and most of those folders, via the folder properties), the environmental variables like %USERPROFILE% are useless to construct a path like %USERPROFILE%\Downloads , and WScript.Shell.SpecialFolders doesn't list the Downloads folder. I guess it has to be done reading the registry , but I'm clueless about that. Thanks! Found the answer google a little more... The way to read the registry is, as per http://vba-corner.livejournal.com/3054