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I think Windows Explorer makes heavy use of file monitors. You can find an example of one at sysinternals.com. Also, I think its a multi-threaded app, only showing/reading/updating files in the folder(s) that are expanded. The logic behind that is not terribly hard to implement.<br>
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For the icons question, check out ExtractAssociatedIcon.<br>
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: Does any body know how standart windows explorer works so fast, and is able to display each file with it's proper icon. I wrote app which channed the whole disk every time started, but it was terribly slow, and there was no way to know every file's icon<br>
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: Please send me some info, if there is some windows db, where every file is decribed.<br>
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