Unregister a shell extension without killing Explorer

[krose]

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

 

[Mattias Sjögren]

Make sure you check the "Launch folder windows in a separate process"
option in Explorer's Folder Options dialog. That way you should only
ahve to close the explorer windows that you've opened since the
extension was last registered.


Mattias