Difference between FOLDER and DIRECTORY

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What is the difference between a FOLDER and a DIRECTORY in XP?

In the registry I can see these two keys:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FOLDER
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DIRECTORY

What is the difference between them?

 

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"Alex Coleman" <coalie@nomail.com> wrote in message
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> What is the difference between a FOLDER and a DIRECTORY in XP?
>
> In the registry I can see these two keys:
>
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FOLDER
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DIRECTORY
>
> What is the difference between them?

http://www.mcse.ms/archive55-2004-1-325086.html

 

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"Alex Coleman" <coalie@nomail.com> wrote in message
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> What is the difference between a FOLDER and a DIRECTORY in XP?

None.

> In the registry I can see these two keys:
>
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FOLDER
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DIRECTORY
>
> What is the difference between them?

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FOLDER is the visible and is in active use by Explorer.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DIRECTORY is hidden and I don't know what it's used for.
It might be a left-over from Win3 for backward compatibility.

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Try here:

http://www.mcse.ms/archive55-2004-1-325086.html

HTH,
TC