Windows 10: Open CommonDialog not working up after update to Windows 10 1809 / 1903

Common dialog used to work, for Open Dialog Box with Windows 10, but after upgrade to 1809 the Dialog box does not open, but a message shows up in console log "CommonDialog: The common dialog function failed during initialization. This error often occurs when insufficient memory is available".


var szPrompt = 'Select required File';

var dialog = new ActiveXObject('MsComDlg.CommonDialog');

dialog.Filter='All Files(*.*)|*.*';

dialog.MaxFileSize=32767;

dialog.DialogTitle=szPrompt;

dialog.Flags=0x200|0x80000|0x800|0x4|0x200000

dialog.ShowOpen();

var ret = dialog.FileName;

dialog = void 0;


The above code used to work with Windows 10 1703 1803, but after upgrade to 1809, and 1903, the CommonDialog box fails to open.

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Update Windows 10 - From 1809 to 1903

If we suppose we have windows 10 1903 in DVD or USB.

Can we update windows 10 1809 to 1903 with 1903's DVD? (offline update)

 

W10 1809 to 1903 update

Lenovo ThinkCentre E73, I have updated from W10 1809 to 1903 and the PC has now gone really slow and having issues with admin rights, I have chkdsk'd and scannow'd' but no issues found. Tried an inplace update in case windows was corrupted and get the
message some hardware on this PC is incompatible with 1903 update. Can anyone shed any light in these issues please. I have had to revert to 1809 to make the PC usable again. Any suggestions please ? Microsoft have said Lenovo are responsible and Lenovo have
said Microsoft is responsible, which does not help me one bit.