windows 7 minute change for the worse

[nikos]

after some bug reports i received it turns out that in windows 7
there's a very subtle change to the way IShellFolder::GetDisplayNameOf
works for items in "my computer"

in all previous windows versions psfMycomp->GetDisplayNameOf(pidl,
SHGDN_INFOLDER | SHGDN_FORPARSING, ...) for root drive items would
return the proper root path including a backslash:

C:\
D:\
...

windows 7 the same thing returns the root path WITHOUT the backslash
as

C:
D:
...

C: is not a valid parsing path since it doesn't necessarily correspond
to the ROOT.
I wonder why this change and if it is just a temporary bug or it is
going to stay for the release version of windows 7?

thanks
nikos

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[nikos]

does anybody know of any windows 7 specific newsgroup that i can
report this, hopefully with more success?

thanks

[Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]]

"nikos" <ume...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:3b969430-6513-412f...@3g2000yqk.googlegroups.com...

> does anybody know of any windows 7 specific newsgroup that i can
> report this, hopefully with more success?

microsoft.beta.win7.developers, perhaps

>
> thanks

[nikos]

On Apr 10, 5:18 pm, "Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <r...@nospam.nospam> wrote:
>
> microsoft.beta.win7.developers, perhaps
>

I couldn't find this group!?

[Dean Earley]

It appears that the microsoft.beta heirachy is hidden to us mere mortals :)

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