diff -r 95540e6ea463 -r 73c3b1db2364 pidgin/gtkutils.c
--- a/pidgin/gtkutils.c	Sun Aug 21 23:45:07 2011 +0000
+++ b/pidgin/gtkutils.c	Wed Aug 24 15:05:10 2011 +0000
@@ -3286,9 +3286,9 @@
 	{
 		gchar *escaped = g_shell_quote(uri);
 		gchar *param = g_strconcat("/select,\"", uri, "\"", NULL);
-		gchar *wc_param = g_utf8_to_utf16(param, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
-
-		code = (int)ShellExecuteW(NULL, "OPEN", L"explorer.exe", wc_param, NULL, SW_NORMAL);
+		wchar_t *wc_param = g_utf8_to_utf16(param, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+
+		code = (int)ShellExecuteW(NULL, L"OPEN", L"explorer.exe", wc_param, NULL, SW_NORMAL);
 
 		g_free(wc_param);
 		g_free(param);