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hello programmers
is there any win32 api or technique by which we can fetch the address of the active window of explorer(not the internet explorer)

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Check out FindWindow(). You'll need the Explorer class name, which is "ExploreWClass".
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god but will it give me the address of files on the desktop
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Originally Posted by nsvanjani View Post
god but will it give me the address of files on the desktop
Well no.... it will give you the address of an active File Explorer window as requested.
If you just want to get to files on the desktop you can just look at the contents of C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP, or better still, as Windows may be installed elsewhere, use the DESKTOP subdir of GetWindowsDirectory().
Or better still use:
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  1. LPITEMIDLIST pidl; 
  2. SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(NULL, CSIDL_DESKTOP,  &pidl); 
  3. // Convert the item ID list's binary 
  4. // representation into a file system path 
  5. char szPath[_MAX_PATH]; 
  6. SHGetPathFromIDList(pidl, szPath);
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