Hiding dirs in Explorer

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Hi hobbit123,

are you a J.R.R. Tolkien fan?

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If you want to use another product for hiding folder, look at this:

http://www.touchzones.com/des.htm#mf

If you want to do this yourself: good-night...  :-)
You'll have to write a device driver. Look at www.vireo.com if you really want to do this.

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Oh dear, you'll have to write a driver for this purpose, too...  :-(((
And probably you can't call a normal routine when a file is going to be deleted, you'll have to do all the work in the driver, I think (I'm not too sure about that).

Sorry, but I fear, there's just no better answer to these questions...

The IShellFolder interface can't help you, because it isn't thought for this purpose, so it does not have the functionality for it.
You can use the ICopyHook interface to hook DIRECTORY deletings, but not file deletings.

Regards, Madshi.

Hi,

You can change the attrib of the DIRECTORY to HIDDEN, and this will do the trick, thnx.

BEST Regards,
NABILAAL

Nabilaal,

that doesn't help much, because the more advanced users change the explorer settings, so they see the directories with the "hidden" attribute, too.
Furthermore you didn't say something to hobbit123's second question...

Regards, Madshi.

hobbit123, if you want to look at the driver stuff, you can download a fileMonitor from "www.sysinternals.com". There are drivers (with complete sources!) for both win95/98 and NT.
I think if you have these drivers with sources, it's only a little step to hide folders or to hook file deletings.

Regards, Madshi.

Hi, hi, hi, Nabilaal, you're so funny. Don't you think, that a person that knows Delphi also knows something about attributes? I wouldn't give 400 pts for such easy question.
This is not a solution.

                                                      Hobbit

Hi, hi, hi, Nabilaal, you're so funny. Don't you think, that a person that knows Delphi also knows something about attributes? I wouldn't give 400 pts for such easy question.
This is not a solution.

                                                      Hobbit

Hi Hobbit,

you didn't say anything about my suggestions yet...

Regards, Madshi.

Madshi: I'm sorry, I was busy last time.
I'm now downloading FileMon source from sysinternals, and I think this will help. Thanks.
I think you can answer my question and get those 400 pts. But I'm afraid you'll have to wait. I'm leaving till 20.II.


                                    Hobbit123

[Yes, I am a J.R.R Tolkien fan :-)]

Hmmm. If you want to add hiding functionality to the FileMon from sysinternals, you need Vireo's driver kit(s) AND either Microsoft's or Borland's C(++) compiler.
I hope you have enough money...   :-(

Regards, Madshi.