Why does ShellExecute return SE_ERR_ACCESSDENIED for nearly everything?

We saw a while ago that the function returns at the slightest provocation. Why can't it return something more meaningful? The short-term answer is that the return value from is both a success code and an error code, and you check whether the value is greater than 32 to see which half you're in. In particular, the error code case is if the va...