>>>I have seen many neat things here at UT on Shell automation. Our app was "installed" the old fashion way, just dropped into a folder with all the necessary .dlls in that folder. An install was never done, just a COPY. To do any Shell automation, do some other "components" need to reside on the client's PC?
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>>Brenda,
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>>I assume you're referring to the Shell.Application object. If so, the answer is yes, the Active Desktop has to have been installed. On Win95, it means that IE 4.01 with the Active Desktop option had to have been installed. The only way to get it installed on that version of Windows if it never had been would be to install it. This may mean uninstalling IE 5 (it didn't come with that version), installing 4.01, then re-installing IE 5. You can find out some stuff about the Shell.Application in the July 2000 issue of the VFUG newsletter. It's available on-line at www.vfug.org.
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>George,
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>Why it's such a pain process? :( I tried today GetFolder() code by Ed Rauh (from FAQ section), but it didn't work on my work machine (Windows 95 with IE 5.5). It works on my home machine (Windows 98), but it gives me an error, if I hit a Cancel button on this dialog.

You mean the install? I can't say for certain. I recall reading that when MS released IE 5.0 they wanted to minimize the download time, so they didn't include the Active Desktop. Further, I would speculate that at the time of release, including it may have been overkill in many cases as people had switched to Win98 anyway.

I'm not familar with the FAQ you're speaking of so I can't comment on that.