File Common Dialog does not work with URL Shortcuts

I wanted to use it to open URL shortcuts but when doing so received an error message that "the file name is invalid". For example I tried the file "Welcome to HP.url". Apparently Windows interprets the filename to the actual http://www.hp.com/ and the slashes mess it up. I tried using either of the two flags OFN_NODEREFERENCELINKS and OFN_NOVALIDATE but they did not help even though in the VB common dialog they do. I looked at the code in GCommonDialog.cls - VBGetOpenFileName2 and changed this

      .flags = (-FileMustExist * OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST) Or _
             (-MultiSelect * OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT) Or _
              (-ReadOnly * OFN_READONLY) Or _
              (-HideReadOnly * OFN_HIDEREADONLY)
      .flags = .flags And Not OFN_ENABLEHOOK

to

      .flags = (-FileMustExist * OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST) Or _
             (-MultiSelect * OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT) Or _
              (-ReadOnly * OFN_READONLY) Or _
              (-HideReadOnly * OFN_HIDEREADONLY) Or _
             (flags And (Not OFN_ENABLEHOOK))

and now the call works without the error message. I had seen in the example CustomDlg6.vbp that the code in the class was like this:

             (flags And CLng(Not OFN_ENABLEHOOK))