Windows Directory

[si_69]

Hi Can anyone tell me the best way to obtain the windows directory and drive thanks Simon

[Lost User]

Look up SHGetFolderPath in the documentation and use the flag 'CSIDL_WINDOWS', this will get you the path to the windows folder (typically c:\windows). Always use SHGetFolderPath for special folders like My Documents, Program Files and so on. It's a bit of an ugly function so I'd wrap it in something a bit cleaner that returns a string.

Dave Kerr codechamber@hotmail.com http://www.codechamber.com

[Hamid Taebi]

See GetWindowsDirectory

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[Michael Dunn]

CSIDL_WINDOWS was only recently added to the CSIDL_* list. Use GetWindowsDirectory() to have your code work on all versions of the OS

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UINT GetWindowsDirectory( LPTSTR lpBuffer, // buffer for Windows directory UINT uSize // size of directory buffer );

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