re: The COMDLG32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:SHRegGetValueW
Monday, February 23, 2009 at 2:22 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
gewg_ wrote:
||[...]Internet Exploder has its fingers into everything.
||Now it's broken and you need to get it fixed[...]
Rudy Kreubel wrote:
|My 98 machine is not hooked up to the net.
You seem to think that Internet Explorer is ONLY a Web browser.
That is dangerously naive.
When I said "into everything",
I meant that what is called "Internet Explorer" is used by Windoze for MANY things.
This was a point made by the prosecution in the US Supreme Court case
United States vs Microsoft:[1]
http://www.google.com/search?
q=Mr-Fortini-here-is-advocating-taking-non-browsing-*-features-*-*-*-*-out-of-MSHTML
From that same document:
http://www.google.com/search?q=SHLWAPI+inurl:0610ahttp://www.google.com/search?
q=Does-IE-*-distribute-these-so-called-core-DLL's++Yes-All-of-them
If you are going to SECOND-GUESS every answer you get
instead of clicking the links provided
then reading what they say and following the directions,
you can expect to have this problem forever.
[1] ...where Microsoft's conviction of abusing their OS monopoly was upheld.
It's a shame our corrupt politicians (e.g. Dubya) wouldn't enforce the verdict.
The European Union, OTOH, *is* taking actions against M$
--but even they are snail-slow.
