Notes tests, text files, manipulation of text files in Excel and with Excel VBA CSV stuff

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https://www.eileenslounge.com/viewto...314905#p314905
These are SCIDs, an alternative method of using ExtendedProperty…..

Thanks for all that. Interesting. I expect I will come back here often and ponder all that.
I have come across the {weird number in curly bracket unique identifier GUID things}, - I am not so totally sure what they are about but have used them and messed with them in a thread I am still looking for. ( I also have used them as a way to Late bind, and never really got the point so good, and I think in the thread I am looking for, I was randomly finding them on the registry and messing with them trying to figure out what they are about or what they did. (Often they seemed to "initiate" things on my computer to always start, things I never knew I had)
It’s all a bit confusing for me, all these new terms, but never the less very helpful to have it all here as I expect eventually it may all fall in to place, when I re read, discover things, and keep experimenting, etc.

I had spent some time already looking in detail at the text like file you pointed me to. I examined it carefully to see exactly what characters are in it. ( https://www.excelfox.com/forum/showt...ge12#post23981 You do get what you see, - there are no strange "hidden" characters in it), so I made notes on it, isolated the names and went on to experiment using the name bits from it.
( https://www.excelfox.com/forum/showt...ge59#post23983
https://www.excelfox.com/forum/showt...ge4#post239729
I was going to reference all that in some concluding feedback here, but then got unexpectedly stuck on the XP issue.
I had pulled out a list of all 1054 names to put in .ExtendedProperty("System.name")
, so I the am going to go back to that now and pull out the SCIDs , ( I am first getting my masks, disinfectant, surgical gloves etc. ready, - googling tells me SCID is some weakness in immune system caused by playing chess on computers, - could be some early experiments of Bill Gates maybe, to distribute viruses in operating systems which finally led to the Coronavirus)

I had not noticed yet that that the GUIDs in that forum post I found tied up with the ones in the propkey h text file thing. I see now they do, thanks for the heads up. (These GUID things seem to have their ugly head all over the place so my first reaction was to ignore the ones in the propkey h text file thing , Lol.? )
( It’s possibly falling into place now, I see now that the mysterious forum post I found was possibly planted in by a forth columnist working for Microsoft or Bill Gates. I expect getting rid of that post will be like trying to cut out Microsoft Edge. I may have to just try to quarantine/ isolate it somehow, or limit its resources to contain it a bit)

Thanks for the enlightening reply,
Alan

P.S. A bit of Laymen lateral thinking… These GUIDs refer to other stuff, often I think some sort of sub programs, libraries of stuff, including perhaps functions / programs, ( dll and COM codswallops & co ) that may or may not be available. I wonder if when I look now at the relevant GUIDs , then me or someone smarter may be able to identify some "package/ download cabinet or kitchen sink" or whatever, that I am missing on my XP machines that is causing my XP problem ??