{"id":958,"date":"2009-06-24T14:52:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T12:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/?p=958"},"modified":"2009-06-24T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T13:17:12","slug":"windows-shell-integration-and-windows-live-messenger-things-that-should-have-never-been-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/958","title":{"rendered":"Windows Shell integration and Windows Live Messenger: things that should have never been done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you drag a file over <a href=\"http:\/\/download.live.com\/messenger\">Windows Live Messenger<\/a>&#8216;s <em>My Sharing Folders<\/em> shell name space item, it would immediately interrupt dragging with an error message box, even if you never planned to drop onto this folder:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-957\" title=\"Windows Live Messenger\" src=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/24-image001.png\" alt=\"Windows Live Messenger\" width=\"698\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/24-image001.png 698w, https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/24-image001-300x166.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This should definitely be rather implemented a different way. If you ever tried to drag something using slow PC touchpad, you probably have an idea of how annoying such an interruption could be.<\/p>\n<p>Windows Live Messenger was pre-installed. To disable shared folders feature, I wanted to find a proper setting in options, but it did not appear to be easy enough: Help button, Show the menu bar, Tools, Options, Sharing Folders on the left, oops! it was not helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Going another way of finding DLL that hosts the shell extension revealed file named: <em>C:\\Program Files\\Windows Live\\Messenger\\fsshext.8.5.1302.1018.dll<\/em>. Once unregistered, the folder went away from the shell (process restart needed, typically logoff\/logon):<\/p>\n<pre>C:\\&gt;regsvr32 \/u \"C:\\Program Files\\Windows Live\\Messenger\\fsshext.8.5.1302.1018.dll\"<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you drag a file over Windows Live Messenger&#8216;s My Sharing Folders shell name space item, it would immediately interrupt dragging with an error message box, even if you never planned to drop onto this folder: This should definitely be rather implemented a different way. If you ever tried to drag something using slow PC&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/958\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[169,213,211,212,59,168],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-extension","tag-folder","tag-live","tag-messenger","tag-microsoft","tag-shell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}