Is there any Win32 API to get users home directory

[Nandu_77b]

HI Any can help me, to get the users home directory in windows. Is there any win32 API avilable for it? Home directory means ::C:\Documents and Settings\ Please help with possible ways to get this thro program. Thanks, Nandu

[Nandu_77b]

Home dir:C:\Documents and Settings\userid

[JudyL_MD]

SHGetSpecialFolderPath[^]

[krmed]

You could also use GetEnvironmentVariable:

TCHAR tcDirName[_MAX_PATH];
GetEnvironmentVariable(_T("userprofile"), tcDirName, _MAX_PATH);

This environment variable is set when the user logs on. Note that it is not always on the same drive as the system (C:). Hope that helps.

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[Nandu_77b]

Thanks for your reply, is there any specific win32 API who will do this job. As i need to use this in win32 API programming, not in MFC or higher framwork. -Nandu

[krmed]

That is Win32 API call.

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[Nibu babu thomas]

Nandu_77b wrote:

is there any specific win32 API who will do this job

Yes, use GetUserProfileDirectory - retrieves the path to the root directory of the specified user's profile. For e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\Nibu A function which uses ths API to return current process user home dir...

#include "Userenv.h"
#pragma comment(lib, "userenv.lib")
CString GetUserHomeDir()
{
TCHAR szHomeDirBuf[MAX_PATH] = { 0 };

HANDLE hToken = 0;
VERIFY( OpenProcessToken( GetCurrentProcess(), TOKEN_QUERY, &hToken ));

DWORD BufSize = MAX_PATH;
VERIFY( GetUserProfileDirectory( hToken, szHomeDirBuf, &BufSize ));

CloseHandle( hToken );
return CString( szHomeDirBuf );
}

Then there are other functions too which might interest you, like... GetAllUsersProfileDirectory GetDefaultUserProfileDirectory GetProfilesDirectory Look up these in MSDN for more information.

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modified on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 11:55 PM

[Member 8534035]

Is the given code correct? I am wondering about the return instruction, in which a CString object is created: return CString( szHomeDirBuf ); In my opinion this object will be already destroyed while the function returns. When accessing from caller, the object is already invalid. CString res = GetUserHomeDir(); Am I wrong?