Windows 98: "Save As..." dialog box and folder shortcuts

[ivanbuto]

Hi everyone,

as some of you might know, the Windows 98 "Save As..." dialog box, besides being

too small, clumsy, etc., has one annoying behavior. It lets you double-click

through a folder shortcut, while replacing the name of the file to be saved with

the name of the folder shortcut.

Here is an example. You want to save a file called "example.abc". On your

desktop, you have a shortcut to a custom folder somewhere deep inside your hard

drive. Say this shortcut is called "Folder.lnk". Now, you click on the Desktop

icon, and then double-click on "Folder" (note that .lnk extensions are not

displayed by default even with all file extensions enabled). The Save As dialog

box indeed takes you to the folder that the shortcut is referring to, but now

the "File name" field, instead of "example.abc", you have "Folder.lnk"!!

The Windows Me/2000/XP "Save As..." dialog boxes do not have this quirk, i.e. the file name is not replaced with the folder shortcut name. For these operating systems, an exception is set up somewhere so that the name of a shortcut folder is not inserted at all after a single click.

I originally thought the difference could be attributed to comctl32.dll, however, this is apparently not the case, seeing as Windows Me with recent updates will have the same version of the file as Windows 98.

What files account for this behavior in Windows 98, and could this quirk be fixed?

Thanks,

Ivan