Microsoft KB Archive/191656

= How To Open an Instance of Windows Explorer in a System Folder =

Article ID: 191656

Article Last Modified on 7/1/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows CE 2.0 for the Handheld PC

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This article was previously published under Q191656



SUMMARY
You can enable your application to start an instance of Windows Explorer in a system folder, such as Control Panel or Recycle Bin, by passing the class ID of the folder as the filename in a call to ShellExecuteEx.



MORE INFORMATION
Under Windows CE, ShellExecuteEx does not support the SEE_MASK_IDLIST or SEE_MASK_INVOKEIDLIST flags. Therefore, you cannot use an LPITEMIDLIST that is obtained by calling SHGetSpecialFolderLocation to open Windows Explorer in a system folder.

Instead, use the following class ID of the system folder that you want to open when calling ShellExecuteEx:   Control Panel - {000314FE-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} My Computer - {000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} Recycle Bin - {000214A1-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} Databases - {000214A4-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} You can use the following function to open an instance of Windows Explorer in the Control Panel folder. Note that the CLSID must be enclosed in quotes. BOOL WINAPI OpenControlPanel {     TCHAR szControlPanel[] = L"\" {000314FE-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\"";

SHELLEXECUTEINFO sei = {0}; sei.cbSize = sizeof (SHELLEXECUTEINFO); sei.lpVerb = L"Open"; sei.lpFile = szControlPanel; sei.nShow = SW_SHOW; sei.hInstApp = hInstance;

return ShellExecuteEx (&sei); }

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