Re: BrowseForFolder

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From: Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam_at_hydro.com)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:32:13 +0200

TomThumbKOP wrote:

> I am attempting to use BrowseForFolder to select a file (&H4000). It
> works fine for files everywhere except for the root of c:\. For these
> files, it throws an Invalid Procedure or Function Call Error. It is
> driving me nuts. There is nothing that I can see in the permissions,
> etc. that would cause this. It is on a W2K machine with WSH v5.6. Any
> Ideas?
Hi

From: Günter Born (No_Spam_GBorn@Web.de)
Subject: Re: WSHShell.BrowseForFolder() failure
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.scripting.wsh
Date: 2001-12-04 23:57:58 PST

<quote>
It's my experience that BrowseForFolder fails in Win XP (for most files)
and partly in W 2000 (for all files located in the root directory), if
BIF_browseincludefiles = &H4000 is used. According to Microsoft's docs,
the use of BIF_browseincludefiles = &H4000 isn't recomended.

G. Born
</quote> 

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