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Re: shfolder.dll

• Posted by jluethje at gmx.de Apr 09, 2002
• 408 views

Hi,

akusaya wrote:

> Thanks, it's right, but where is the program files dir (usually
> C:\Program files) ?
> [...]

Hm.. I don't know. Looking for "C:\Program files" in the registry
wouldn't be a good idea, because there are many entrys related to it.
So I tried the following (using Win 98, 1st edition):

- making directory "c:\pipapo"
- regedit > looking for "pipapo" -- not found, as expected
- tweakui > My Computer > Special Folders:
  setting %Program Files% to "c:\pipapo" (+ holding my breath  
- regedit > looking for pipapo -- found once,
    branch: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
    entry : ProgramFilesDir = "C:\pipapo"

Unfortunately I'm not sure, if this finding can be generalized, but why
not? 

Best regards,
Juergen


PS: Euphoria and this list are new to me. I wish to thank RDS very much
    for having created this both simple and powerful language, which is
    very elegant and flexible. At the moment, I'm beginning to gather
    some experience with it, and it seems to me, that Euphoria is the
    programming language, I always have been looking for. 
    I am also very impressed by the "Euphoria community" and the
    archive, which e.g. make it much easier to write windows programs,
    let me use a parser generator (or try to understand how it works
    , let me deal with fuzzy sets, and.. and.. Thanks a lot!