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Hey Remy,

Thanks for the information.  I've skimmed the article the link you gave me
went to and I may look into it farther.  The company I work for currently
uses Borland's C++ Builder 6 Enterprise, so I think I'll wait till you get
your new components up and running before trying those.

Randel

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47.no.spam@no.spam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Randel Bjorkquist" <rbjorkquist@coilcraft.com> wrote in message
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> > I am retrieving the file and letting windows open it with its
> > associated program.  So if I change it, I'm not sure how to
> > open the file so the end-user can see it.
>
> Rather than using ShellExecute(), you could use FindExecutable() with the
> original filename, and then use CreateProcess() to run the program
directly,
> passing it the temporary filename.  Then it (usually) doesn't matter what
> the filename actually is.  Or, you can just look in the Registry directly
to
> determine how a given file extension should be loaded (you can use my
> TRegExtension component for that: http://reg.lebeausoftware.org).
>
> > I guess I was being lazy by trying to let Windows clean it up without
> > having to write something to do it.
>
> I suggest you read the following article, it explains how to work with the
> Disk Cleanup utility:
>
>     Creating a Disk Cleanup Handler
>
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_int/shell_int_extending/disk_cleanup.asp
>
>     "The basic challenge inherent in disk cleanup is to free as much disk
> space as possible without deleting essential files. Because there is no
> standard way to mark files for cleanup, no single application can reliably
> detect and clean all unessential files. The Disk Cleanup utility addresses
> this problem by splitting the cleanup operation between a single disk
> cleanup manager and a collection of disk cleanup handlers."
>
>
> Gambit
>
>