Now, myself being a Systems administrator, I would be extremely doubtful of
using the "simple" method of querying the registry. API calls are there for
a reason.
I don't know how easy the registry is to rebuild on W2K, since i haven't had
to do it yet (crosses fingers), but the less playing around with it, the
less chance of it bustificating. (word of the day).
MK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Jansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Perl-Win32-Users (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 11:19 AM
Subject: RE: Determining Default 'My Documents' folder path
> I'm suprised that no-one has mentioned this yet but In
> windows 2000 group policies (there are also other ways
> to do this) you can use 'folder redirection' to
> redirect special folder such as 'my documents' to
> another location. ou don't have to use a server based
> profile (ie: roaming) to do this. Because of this the
> solution proposed that you just append 'my documents'
> to the userprofile environment variable location will
> not always work. It's always safer to pull the
> location from the registry in a way that has already
> been mentioned. I think using an API call is overkill
> personally.
> HTH
> PJ
>
> --- Conor Lillis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not
> pull it from the environmental variables,
> > and append "My documents"
> > to the userprofile value ?
> > To view environment variables, type SET at a command
> > line. This method
> > should work in all cases, as MS create these folders
> > as default for any new
> > user that logs into a PC.
> >
> > This code will list all environment variables on
> > your local PC.
> >
> > foreach $key (sort keys(%ENV)) {
> > print "$key = $ENV{$key}\n";
> > }
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Conor
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 30 May 2002 17:43
> > To: Adam Frielink
> > Cc: Perl-Win32-Users (E-mail)
> > Subject: Re: Determining Default 'My Documents'
> > folder path
> >
> >
> >
> > On 30/05/2002 15:24:40 perl-win32-users-admin wrote:
> >
> > >I have been looking for a way to determine the path
> > of the 'My Documents'
> > >folder for a PC. I assume this is a registry
> > setting. I did a search for
> > >this through MY registry and the only potential
> > references I can find
> > refer
> > >to a shell32.dll,9227. I don't have a clue as to
> > what that means.
> > >
> >
> > Forget that. For Windows 2000, look in the registry
> > under
> >
> >
> HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Shell
> > Folders
> > ^^^^- HKEY_CURRENT_USER (there's a space character
> > there)---^
> >
> > You'll find entries for "Administrative Tools",
> > "Desktop",
> > "Favourites", "Start Menu", etc.
> > Look for either "My Documents" or "Personal".
> >
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