Ok, thanks David. Native usage is the one I needed confirmation on.
_____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia _____ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 12:14 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: (OT) AppData folder Don't use environment variables to find these locations (they might not be defined, or could be set to something completely wrong). If .NET, use Environment.GetFolderPath. For native use SHGetFolderPath. Both are supported on Windows 2000 onwards. _____ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] on behalf of Ian Thomas [il.tho...@iinet.net.au] Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 1:56 AM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: (OT) AppData folder This is not a direct .NET question, since I need to know for a MinGW compile of C code in the next couple of weeks. We require a consistent location for installing plugins to this Win32 application. Perhaps the install location or a folder under it is most sensible, but AppData has been suggested. I can't recall whether the AppData folder is consistently accessible via an environment variable across Windows versions from (say) Win2000 onwards. Searching MSDN etc finds some KB articles that refer to (even in Windows XP) situations where %AppData% was not being correctly expanded, and these are dated around 2007 to 2009. Has this been corrected? I have access to a Windows XP SP3 system on which I can check, but not earlier versions or even server 2003 - and the compile will need to work on Win2000 onwards (roughly). Also - just discovered - a home machine which has AMD A8 (4-core) processor (which supports virtualization under "AMD-V") is running on an Asus mainboard supposedly designed for it, but Windows 7 64-bit won't run an XP-mode virtual machine. Does anyone know what my options are for this machine? I'd need to check again, but I don't recall seeing any BIOS switch. _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
