SHParseDisplayName

[hawthornenigel]

Hi,

I notice that Windows 2000 is not supported anymore with 1.0.0.0 (x86)!
On MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx) this function is marked as Minimum operating systems: Windows XP. Is there any particular reason for dropping support for Windows 2000 or was it just overlooked in testing?

I have to continue to support some old Windows 2000 installations until late next year (thankfully all these are now migrated to virtual machines on vsphere). I would like to be able to use explorer++ everywhere, but I have to stick with the old version because 1.0.0.0 dies with this error message when trying to start it.

Regards,
Nigel

[David Erceg]

Looking through the code, SHParseDisplayName() is only called once, but the call has been there since before version 0.9.0.0. All versions have also used Shell_GetImageLists(), which requires a minimum of XP. I haven't personally tested, but based on the documentation, I'm not sure any version would have run successfully on Windows 2000.

[hawthornenigel]

Hi David,

I was mistaken when I said that the earlier version worked. I have evaluated many different explorer alternatives in the past 2 or 3 weeks, and I seem to have my impressions of explorer++ muddled with another program. My apologies for the misunderstanding.

Having said that, is there any chance that explorer++ could be made compatible with windows 2000? I know the OS is obsolete now, and will be out of extended support fairly soon, but it is still used in a few places in my company that I have to deal with on occasion.

Regards,
Nigel

[David Erceg]

It might be possible to make it compatible with Windows 2000 (although from memory there are a few other things that depend on Windows XP), but unfortunately it's not too high on my list of priorities.