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When does an icon handler shell extension get unloaded?

February 15, 2012 Feb 15, 2012 02/15/12

Raymond Chen

A customer had a question about the function. They used the function to obtain the icon for a file, and they discovered that when they asked for the icon of a particular type of file, the shell extension for the associated application was loaded. But unfortunately the third party shell extension is not getting unloaded, maybe because of a ...