Java access Shellfolder

Question

Hello Guys

I am trying to access an Shellfolder like: "Shell:::{35786D3C-B075-49b9-88DD-029876E11C01}" via Java on a Windows PC ... but I havn't found a way to do so up to now.

Is this generally possible with Java? Recently I uncovered the sun.awt class "ShellFolder"... Does this class provide the abilitiy to access such an folder?

thanks for your help Ripei

Answer 1

I think an easy way to do it would be to create a temp folder with that name, e.g.:

    File file = new File("c:/temp/AnyName.{35786D3C-B075-49b9-88DD-029876E11C01}");
    boolean success = file.mkdir();

Works on Windows 7 for other GUIDs (seems {35786D3C-B075-49b9-88DD-029876E11C01} is for XP), don't know about prior versions.