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What does SHGFI_USEFILEATTRIBUTES mean?

June 1, 2004 Jun 1, 2004 06/1/04

Raymond Chen

One of the flags you can pass to the SHGetFileInfo function is SHGFI_USEFILEATTRIBUTES. What does this flag mean? It means, "Do not access the disk. Pretend that the file/directory exists, and that its file attributes are what I passed as the dwFileAttributes parameter. Do this regardless of whether it actually exists or not." You...