The OpenSaveMRU key exists in the Windows Registry and tracks files that have been opened or saved within a Windows shell dialog box. It is part of a set of keys recording information from the Windows Common Dialog. The Common Dialog libraries can be
The OpenSaveMRU key exists in the Windows Registry and tracks files that have been opened or saved within a Windows shell dialog box. It is part of a set of keys recording information from the Windows Common Dialog. The Common Dialog libraries can be used by any Windows application and Microsoft highly recommends that developers use them instead of creating novel user interface elements. Data is commonly found in this key from web browsers, document viewers, archiving utilities, and image viewers.
Registry Key Location
The key is present in each user's NTUSER.DAT hive in the \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDIg32\OpenSaveMRU location. The values stored in the key itself are items that do not have file extensions associated with them. Since most files in Windows have extensions, what often ends up here is auto-complete information. Consider an OpenSave dialog box that allows you to choose a file type from a list (e.g..jpg,.png,.bmp). User input into this dialog will typically be the name of the file without the extension, since the dropdown filetype menu takes care of filling in the extension. Thus what will b