The Old New Thing

What's so special about the desktop window?

February 24, 2004 Feb 24, 2004 02/24/04

Raymond Chen

The window returned by GetDesktopWindow() is very special, and I see people abusing it all over the place. For example, many functions in the shell accept a window handle parameter to be used in case UI is needed. IShellFolder::EnumObjects, for example. What happens if you pass GetDesktopWindow()? If UI does indeed need to be ...