SHGetFolderPath on Windows 98
Jun.20, 2006 in
Geeky/Programming
SHGetFolderPath doesn’s seem to work on Windows 98. If you use it to try to find like the “My Pictures” directory, it will error out. I have read that some versions of Win98 do work, depends on the version of shell32.dll (5 and greater). A workaround that you can use , which probably isn’t 100% good, but works is looking for the My Pictures path in the registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders). Just another quirky thing with the different Microsoft OS’s.
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June 21st, 2006 at 9:40 am
Well, you shouldn’t be too shocked about this.. From MSDN:
“Minimum operating systems Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 5.0, Windows 98 with Internet Explorer 5.0, Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), Windows NT 4.0 with Internet Explorer 5.0, Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 4 (SP4) ”
So if they’re on vanilla 98 w/o IE5, then it won’t work.
The proper way around it is to use SHGetSpecialFolderPath if you’re unable to dynamically load SHGetFolderPath and give that a shot. The Registry may seem like it works, but it’s always a bad idea to rely on the registry for stuff the shell DLLs can already tell you.
June 21st, 2006 at 10:21 am
yead goofy though, IE 5.0 installed on the 98 machine. Also found that FindFirstChangeNotification and EnableDebugPriv dont work - 98 sucks!