ShellSpy
cheztabor
Last Updated August 17, 2000

Use | Source | Download | Changes | License | Contact

This is a programmer's tool to spy on Win32 shell events.

See the MSDN documentation of SHChangeNotify for explanations of the events. By my reckoning, this documentation is about 50% correct - which was the motive for developing ShellSpy in the first place.

Use

Source

project.zip contains a Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 project. It is built with ATL 3.0, WTL 3.1, and the current Platform SDK, and uses two undocumented exports from shell32.dll.

Download

binary.zip (27k)

project.zip (21k)

Changes

August 15, 2000. Version 1.00.

• Initial release.

August 16, 2000. Version 1.01.

• Corrected interpretation of STRRET for Win 9x.

August 17, 2000. Version 1.02.

• Improved pidl-resolution for non-file-system objects.

License

Copyright© 2001 Tim Tabor. All rights reserved. No warrantees extended.

Contact

Please report bugs and feature requests to me.

Enjoy.

Tim Tabor