SteveKing <steveking@gmx.ch> wrote on 01/19/2005 02:31:01 PM:
> Will Dean wrote:
> > At 18:54 19/01/2005 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> >> Did you restart your computer after the upgrade? If not, then the
> >> shell extension part used by the explorer is still the old version!
> >
> >
> > I think a nice-to-have feature would be that the 'about' box actually
> > reported the version of the shell-extension which was loaded (it could
> > even highlight a mismatch).
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Would be nice to have. But how would you get the version the explorer
> has loaded? If you open another instance of the explorer, the new
> version is loaded. If you query for the shell extension itself, you'll
> also get the new version.
> Maybe with a windows message sent from TortoiseProc and answered by the
> shell extension? Would that work?
Would this feature really even solve any problems? What are the odds that
the user is going to check the About box as opposed to just firing off an
email? Once they have done the latter it is just as easy to ask if they
have rebooted then to go into a back and forth of asking them to check the
About.
Mark
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Received on Wed Jan 19 20:36:31 2005