Utility Functions

From very early on, SHELL32 has been a repository of miscellaneous utility functions, some documented, most not. The following are treated here as a set only because they all come to SHELL32.DLL from one object file (UTIL.OBJ). They date from version 4.00 unless otherwise stated. (One is from even earlier.)

• AddCommasW
• ArrangeWindows
• CheckWinIniForAssocs (4.71)
• CopyStreamUI (6.00)
• Int64ToString
• LargeIntegerToString
• ParseField
• PathIsEqualOrSubFolder (6.00)
• SetAppStartingCursor
• SHBindToParent (5.00)
• Shell_MergeMenus
• SHEnumerateUnreadMailAccountsW (6.00)
• SHFileSysBindToStorage (6.00)
• SHGetAttributesFromDataObject (6.00)
• SHGetPathFromIDList (1.30)
• SHGetRealIDL
• SHGetSetSettings
• SHGetSettings (4.71)
• SHGetShellStyleHInstance (6.00)
• SHGetUnreadMailCount (6.00)
• SHGetUserDisplayName (6.00)
• SHIsFileAvailableOffline (5.00)
• SHLogILFromFSIL
• ShortSizeFormatW
• SHOutOfMemoryMessageBox
• SHPathPrepareForWrite (5.00)
• SHRestricted
• SHSettingsChanged (4.71)
• SHSetUnreadMailCountW (6.00)
• SHShouldShowWizards (6.00)
• SHSimpleIDListFromPath
• SHSimulateDropOnClsid (6.00)
• SHWinHelp