brokenhope

Hmm I dont know much about that stuff, oh well, ill figure out what file is causing that problem and try to see what the problem with that file is.

I decided to do the file browser again XD, because I just got MS Visual Basic Studio 2005, and had no other cool projects I could do to test the application out.

This file browser looks a lot better than the one I was doing in .NET 2003, but I still havent added in the icons so you never know if it will end up being as messed up as the last one I made.

B3TA_SCR1PT3R

try 'shell32.dll' for the icons

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@B3TA_SCR1PT3R: That would not work.

@brokenhope: Fedora Core supports NTFS partitions. Try mounting it? I enabled NTFS support as a module in my kernel config for my Gentoo system. Also, all the points that I mentioned are valid issues with trying to replace explorer. It does appear as Rory said to be a filesystem issue. From the look of the exception that you got in your own tests, the conditions sound rather extraordinary.

@Rory: Filesystems are implemented as drivers on the windows platform, as with Linux. I don't know what you mean by abstracting it with explorer.exe...it is the most common practice to have file access as system calls. On both Windows and Linux, a file can be many things. Both consider a device to be a file (though Windows has this hidden somewhat), for example. Regardless of the filesystem driver being used on a given volume, the system call will ultimately call the device driver to handle the real work. In this case where there appears to be something unexpected returned to explorer.exe (as well as any other app that tries to access the directory) be glad that the application bombs and not your kernel...

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brokenhope

Im not trying to replace explorer.exe, I am making a file explorer, when you open up a folder it opens up a window with the files and folders, that is what I am making, simply a file browser application...

I did mount my windows drive in linux, but I havent seen what linux does to that folder yet. Im not gonna boot up linux for awhile because I dont like restarting my computer very often.