> Am I the only one scared that notepad on the latest Windows can still display a dialog box that comes straight from NT 3.1? As the article states the reason

> Am I the only one scared that notepad on the latest Windows can still display a dialog box that comes straight from NT 3.1? As the article states the reason for this is: Because Windows Explorer and many of the components of the Shell aren't included in a Server Core install, applications like Notepad' which would normally show an Open dialog box like this: (show the original File Open dialog) > Why the hell does it still have that DLL built in? To display the file open dialog in Windows all you do is call the GetOpenFileName Win32 function. Back in the days of Windows 95 Microsoft got into the habit of changing the look of the File Open dialog for every new release of Windows and they stored these new dialogs in the common control dll. So I suspect deep inside of Window itself there is pseudo code that works something like this: GetOpenFileName() if Common Control DLL installed Call New Explorer GetOpenFileName dialog else Call the very first every GetOpenFileName dialog built into Windows itself