I already implemented this approach, but it does not give satisfying results (please see my reply to Jiang Sheng above). Any other suggestion?

Hi, I already tried this approach but no success. Reason is that there are no keys in HKEY_USERS hive for any other users beside the current user and some system users (NETWORK SERVICE, LOCAL SERVICE if I remember correctly). If the problem is really with access permissions, is there a way to obtain them so I can read this hive? Maybe some workaround? Or for that reason, any other way at all to find out a special folder for any other user (I specifically need the startup folder)? Thanks. Bila -- modified at 3:56 Tuesday 24th October, 2006

Thanks, this sure helps. Now, one more twist: is there any other way I can do what I need -without- requiring the user's password?

Thanks for your reply. I have already tried this function, but I do not know how to use it to get what I need. I guess that the "hToken" parameter is the answer. Problem is, I do not know the process to create such a token (access token). Could you help me further with this issue please? Bila

Hi all, I would like to know if there is a way to programmatically obtain the path to any user's any special folder? Here I do not mean "All users" profile but really for any user that has his/her profile created on the machine. For example, I can get what I need with the "SHGetSpecialFolderPath" function, but only for the current user. I need to do the same thing but for any arbitrary user. If this task can not be achieved with SHGetSpecialFolderPath function or any other API function, is there maybe some workaround (like manually reading specific registry keys and values)? Thanks in advance. Bila