Visual Basic - RE: Desktop paths

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RE: Desktop paths

Björn Holmgren

2004-03-30, 7:30 am

Use the SHGetSpecialFolderLocation API with either CSIDL_DESKTOP or CSIDL_COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY.

See the following example:
http://www.mentalis.org/apilist/30D...F7063A28CD.html

J French

2004-03-30, 8:30 am

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 02:26:06 -0800, "=?Utf-8?B?S2plbGw=?="
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi
>
>How can I best determine the path to users desktop in different windows versions ??
>
>like Win9x, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP with different languages , especially how to tell the difference between
>"all users" and the logged on user in Win2000

SHGetSpecialFolderLocation ??

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