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Unregister a shell extension without killing Explorer

Hi

Using a couple of examples on CodeProject.com I've create a nice little
shell extension (adds some custom menus for proprietary file types).
Everything is working fine, except I can't get it to unregistry
completely itself without killing explorer.

I call UnregisterAssembly and even manually remove all references to it
from the registry, this prevents the menus appearing which is good and
right. But I still can not actually delete (or more importantly
update) the actually exe/dll without killing explorer.

All the web sites I've seen give the impression that it is impossible
to completely free up the exe/dll without killing explorer, but that
isn't really an option in my case.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Kevin

Nov 17 '05 #1
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On 24 Oct 2005 15:43:24 -0700, "kr***@rockstarsandiego.com"
<kr***@rockstarsandiego.com> wrote:
Hi

Using a couple of examples on CodeProject.com I've create a nice little
shell extension (adds some custom menus for proprietary file types).
Everything is working fine, except I can't get it to unregistry
completely itself without killing explorer.

I call UnregisterAssembly and even manually remove all references to it
from the registry, this prevents the menus appearing which is good and
right. But I still can not actually delete (or more importantly
update) the actually exe/dll without killing explorer.

All the web sites I've seen give the impression that it is impossible
to completely free up the exe/dll without killing explorer, but that
isn't really an option in my case.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Kevin


Explorer keeps a copy of the loaded objects into the cache. The only
way to remove a shell extension is to stop and restart explorer.
Nov 17 '05 #2

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