In Windows 95 and later, the file system is just one possible place to store and search for information. As a result, the pre-Win95 hierarchy of files and directories no longer adequately describes the possible objects that you can now access in Windows. New types of folders such as the Recycle Bin, My Documents, and Printers forced the adoption of a new programming interface. In this new programming interface, Folder objects represent Windows shell folders that contain files or references to other types of objects. (The Folder object in the Windows Shell object model isn't related to the Folder object in the File System Object—FSO—object model. The objects simply share the same name.) Because files no longer solely define a folder's content, more general objects called FolderItem objects represent the items in a folder. A FolderItem can be a file or a chunk of data that represents, for example, a printer or deleted file. A collection called FolderItems represents all the FolderItem objects in a folder. . . .
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