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Q: Ask the API to find a file.

Answer: You can find files by using the ShellExecute function. Unfortunately, this doesn't quite work like I was hoping. Here is how you do it.

    // include SHLOBJ.H in your CPP file.
    #include <shlobj.h>

    // Add this statement to your code.
    ShellExecute(Handle,"find",NULL,NULL,NULL,SW_SHOWDEFAULT);

Note: The downfall is that you can't specify what to search for. ShellExecute usually allows you to specify a filename, but you can't specify a file when you use the "find" command.



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